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UP FRONT

MOUNTAIN LIONS, POACHERS, CAMERAS
AND WILD HORSES, RIGHT NEXT DOOR

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It’s Cinco de Mayo.
It’s the Good Food Store’s Anniversary.

And It’s Going
To Be a Party.
Stop by between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm
this Saturday, May 5, and help us celebrate
more than 40 years serving Western Montana.
COMPLIMENTARY TACOS, BIRTHDAY CAKE & ICE CREAM

Join us for our sidewalk fiesta and we’ll treat you to a ground beef or refried bean taco, Quinoa &
Black Bean Salad, Big Dipper Ice Cream and Mexi-Lemonade from Liquid Planet. Plus inside you
can enjoy Bernice’s cakes, coffee from Craven’s and Black Coffee Roasting Company and tastings
from B-Bar Ranch and Organic Valley.

LIVE MUSIC & KIDS ACTIVITIES

Russ and Sam Nasset will be rockin’ the deli from 11:30 to 2:30 pm.
And don’t hesitate to bring the kids. We’ll keep ‘em busy with a
petting zoo and face painting. We’ll have Clif Kid® ZBars for
them to snack on too.

HUGE PRODUCE SIDEWALK SALE

Asparagus, artichokes, melons and more. Paul will have so many deals on the season’s
freshest fruits and vegetables that we’ll be flingin’ open the garage door and expanding out onto the sidewalk.

When David Boone steps onstage under the
hot lights, cheers erupt. Boone, who is 31 and
handsome, with sparkling green eyes, a trimmed
beard and brown locks that fall loosely past his
ears, looks like a rock star, although he isn’t—not
just yet .................................................................14

Friday

News
Letters Who are you calling a Marxist?........................................................................4
The Week in Review Eric Holder on not loving UM..................................................6
Briefs Does Creed make babies cry?............................................................................6
Etc. Dave Strohmaier’s awesome lost cause................................................................7
Up Front Spotted skunks and mountain lions in your backyard ...............................8
Up Front Inspired by Frank Capra, a candidate comes from Terry ............................9
Ochenski Livingston gets its day in court .................................................................10
Range Can’t we all just get along with wild horses? .................................................11
Agenda The Peace and Justice Film Series presents Promises..................................12

Saturday
5/5/12 • 9 PM
John Floridis
Off in the Woods
The Chalfronts
Baby & Bukowski

The Hasslers
Three Eared Dog
Best Westerns
The Trees
Josh Farmer
M.I.P

Exclusives
Street Talk....................................................................................................................4
In Other News...........................................................................................................13
Classifieds ................................................................................................................C-1
The Advice Goddess................................................................................................C-2
Free Will Astrology..................................................................................................C-4
Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................C-7
This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-15

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Missoula Independent Page 3 May 3 – May 10, 2012

STREET TALK

by Michelle Gustafson

Asked Monday afternoon between Main and Front Streets.

This week, the Indy looks into the life of local singersongwriter David Boone. If you could be the front
(wo)man of a band, which would it be and why?
Follow up: What band would you like to see split up?

Barbara Edgman: I’d front Creedence
Clearwater Revival. You can really sing
along with their music. But I would
want to front someone else’s band,
not my own. Rollin ... rollin: I don’t
think I’d want to split up any band.
Everyone needs someone to look up
to, so even if the band is bad, that’s
their prerogative.

Colter Dykman: A funk band for sure.
You can say whatever you want, like
James Brown. It would be maybe a 10piece band. Clone-adian: I wish that
Justin Bieber would just split in two.
It’s just wrong that he’s been compared to Michael Jackson. That’s not
okay. Great job, Usher, thanks a lot.
Now he’s a bigger star than you.

Emmet Ore: Mine would be a death
metal band. You can scream in people’s
faces and headbang the entire show and
play a bunch of notes that no one can
understand. Shut up, just shut up: The
Black Eyed Peas. Their first few albums
were good, but then, after the song
“Tonight’s Gonna Be a Good Night,” it
just became an abuse of power, like “I’m
rich, so I’m just going to stuff this down
your ears.”

Jordan Larson: I want to be Thom York
and front Radiohead. Radiohead is the best
live show anywhere. By far it was the most
epic show I’ve seen. I’m a music person
through and through. lame.i.am: The Black
Eyed Peas. To call this auto-tune group a
band … I mean, where are the instruments?
It’s all generic. There is a difference between
being an entertainer and being a musician.
They’re just terrible. Their performing at the
Super Bowl was a crime.
Bryant Barton: I’d probably want to
front an outspoken community voice
band, an electronic and hip-hop
fusion band. I’d want the lyrics to be
about self-improvement in terms of
the realities and the made-up truths
that compose our world. Beat goes
on: Can’t cite any of those. Bands that
are still in cahoots with each other
producing music are in it for a reason—why break up their existence?

Missoula Independent Page 4 May 3 – May 10, 2012

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

Are you a Marxist, too?
This letter is in regards to the
Independent’s April 12 article about farright extremists in Ravalli County and their
attempt to disrupt the local Democratic
Central Committee (see “Are Bitterroot conservatives wearing sheep’s clothing?”).
Reporter Alex Sakariassen deserves credit
for keeping Indy readers abreast of the
craziness going on in the Bitterroot these
last few years. However, the article quotes
the subject of his latest article, current
Ravalli County Planning Board Chair Jan
Wisniewski, as mentioning myself by name
with unsubstantiated inferences of being a
“Marxist.” So I feel compelled to correct the
otherwise pretty good article with some
context.
I don’t know how many of your readers
outside of the Bitterroot are paying attention to the off-the-edge-of-the-world antics
of Wisniewski, but everyone here knows
him for who and what he is. An example: As
planning board chair he organized a board
meeting—on the public’s dime—to “educate” that same public on the likelihood that
citizens who advocate for clean air, water,
wilderness and zoning are in reality Agenda
21 Stalinist-Marxist agents whose secret
agenda is to remove most Montanans to
Seattle-area work camps.
The context within which Wisniewski
mentioned my name was in relation to his
activities with the now-defunct, conspiracy-soaked local organization Celebrating
Conservatism. He claimed that since he
had seen “Marxists” such as myself at
these meetings, his attendance at the
same can’t be used as a measure of his
political philosophy.
I did indeed attend parts of two
Celebrating Conservatism meetings. I
attended the first one to listen to ex-sheriff
Richard Mack spout about the
Freeman/Posse Comitatus-tenet of County
Supremacy that he makes a living promoting
these days. I lasted about a half hour into the
second—and last—meeting I attended. I got
up and left in the middle of a “presentation”
given by a local, a purported expert on the
Constitution, the “Founding Fathers” and
“personal responsibility,” who went on
about how F.D.R. was responsible for his
personal dyslexia. There were maybe 200
people sitting politely and listening to this
drivel, and I just couldn’t take it anymore,
and still can’t. Wisniewski, on the other
hand, was a regular and active attendee,
bringing doctored home videos in which he
attempted to cast local citizens he didn’t
agree with as “Marxists” and “communists.”
It’s particularly reprehensible for
extremists like Wisniewski to attempt to
convince low-information, gun-loving citizens that people like myself—and, by extension, any of you who like clean air and
water—are a species of “Marxist” who wants
to eat their children (or whatever) while at
the same time claiming legitimacy as a
Democratic candidate.
Again, I thank Alex for the article, and
I’d appreciate it in the future if the

Independent would provide a couple simple reality checks to help clarify for your
readers whether Wisniewski is really just a
well-meaning, ethical Democrat who just
wants to curb “incipient Marxism” or is
some other critter entirely.
Bill LaCroix
Victor

“It’s reprehensible
for extremists like
Wisniewski to
attempt to convince
low-information,
gun-loving citizens
that people like
myself—and, by
extension, any of
you who like clean
air and water—are a
species of ‘Marxist’
who wants to eat
their children.”
ObamaCare rules!
How many people who bash the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
actually know what the act provides for
them now and in the future?
The following information comes from
the Montana Small Business Alliance.
The Affordable Care Act ends discrimination and expands coverage. It improves
options and bargaining power. There are
protections now, such as: an insurance
company cannot drop you if you get sick;
there is an end of lifetime limits; there is
free preventive care for new plans and a
process for appeals.
Coming in 2014, there will be no
denials of coverage for pre-existing conditions, no extra charge because of health
status or gender and no annual limits, and
there will be health insurance marketplaces (exchanges) for individuals and
small businesses.
Small businesses get a tax break now of
up to 35 percent of premiums for its workers, and this is soon to be 50 percent in
2014.
Kids benefit now because there can be
no pre-existing exclusions for kids under
19. Young adults can stay on their parent’s

insurance to age 26. There are also benefits
for seniors now and in 2014.
Medical loss ratio is the percentage of
premium revenues spent on medical
expenses versus profit, salaries, administration, etc. The new health care law mandates
80 percent MLR in small group and individual markets, 85 percent in large groups.
Insurers who fail to meet MLR will owe
rebates to customers.
There have been at least three stories of
late in the local press about individuals and
families with small children who are facing
medical crises and have no insurance. There
have been fundraisers and spaghetti dinners
to help out. Is this really the best our country can do regarding health insurance?
This is not a perfect plan, but it is better than no plan at all. If the Affordable Care
Act is repealed, will visits to the emergency
rooms increase while hospitals pass the
costs to those of us who do have insurance?
Margie Gignac
Kalispell

Re-elect Curtiss
I am one of those Missoula County
“mutts.” My business is in Seeley Lake, I
own homes in Seeley Lake and Frenchtown,
I have rentals in the city of Missoula and I
serve on community boards in Seeley Lake
as well as Missoula. My perspective on how
the county runs its business covers the
urban and rural areas, and I pay pretty close
attention to how it affects me, my neighbors
and my property.
That is why I support Jean Curtiss in
her bid for reelection as county commissioner. Jean grew up country and still has
the family ties, concern and understanding
of those in the rural areas. Jean lives in the
city and knows it with detailed information
and interest. She has gone through the
long process of learning and understanding what works and how to get things
accomplished. Combine that with her sincere desire to make a positive difference,
her boundless energy and that fact that she
still makes time to serve on 17 additional
boards tells us a lot about her devotion to
this place we call home.
City or rural, Jean listens to the regular
guy with a genuine interest and seeks to
help or explain the challenges. City or rural,
Jean knows that success in both worlds are
necessary for a healthy county—that we are
not in competition but part of the combined yet diverse cultures that make
Missoula County a grand place to live.
Maybe that is why she has chosen to
enlist Mayor John Engen and myself to cochair her campaign. Jean understands complexities and knows that the world really is
not just black and white, right or wrong,
and that the best answer or avenue is not
always the easiest. Jean has proven to be an
inherent leader for Missoula County. Why
change something that is not only not broken but runs well and efficiently?
Addrien Marx
Seeley Lake
Frenchtown

Missoula Independent Page 5 May 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 10, 2012

WEEK IN REVIEW
• Wednesday, April 25

Inside

Letters

Briefs

Up Front

Ochenski

Range

Agenda

VIEWFINDER

News Quirks
by Chad Harder

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, sends a letter to federal officials asking them to study the environmental impacts of mining coal in Montana and
Wyoming, shipping it to coastal ports in Oregon and
Washington and burning it in Asia. He says the
impacts on climate change “are an issue of national
concern that merits a hard look by a federal agency.”

• Thursday, April 26
The Missoula Economic Partnership hires James
Grunke, who has managed the group on an interim
basis since November 2011, as president and CEO.
“When someone is doing the job as well as James is
right now, you want to build on that momentum,”
says Jeff Fee, the board chair.

• Friday, April 27
The St. Louis Rams select University of Montana
cornerback Trumaine Johnson with the 64th pick in
the NFL Draft—among the highest draft positions of
all former Grizzlies. The Denver Broncos select
Kalispell native Brock Osweiler, of Arizona State,
with the 57th pick.

• Saturday, April 28
Former UM football player Kyler Bruno, a 19-year-old
wide receiver from Beaverton, Ore., is released from
the Missoula County jail after being charged with
drunken driving, among other things, after he
allegedly crashed into a fence and a parked car.
Bruno was cut from the team just days before the
incidents.

• Sunday, April 29
The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center and the Missoula
Peace Quilters present veteran Dan Gallagher with
the 2012 Peacemaker Award. He was chosen for “his
work over the last several years to build a bridge
between the peace community and veterans, helping
both to better understand the other perspective and
lessen the animosity that divides the two groups.”

• Monday, April 30
The League of American Bicyclists, a national advocacy group, recognizes Missoula for being a bike-friendly community. Bike lanes, non-motorized trails and
bridges, state of the art bicycle detection at intersections and innovative accommodations like sharrows,
which remind drivers and cyclists to share the road,
helped earn Missoula the award.

• Tuesday, May 1
The U.S. Department of Justice announces an
investigation into the University of Montana’s and
Missoula law enforcement’s handling of 80 sexual
assault cases over the last three years. U.S.
Attorney General Eric Holder says allegations that
UM, the city and county “failed to adequately
address sexual assaults are very disturbing.”

A flaming arrow shot from a toy bow ignites The Man during the Bitterroot Burn, an April 28 party near Pinesdale modeled after
the national Burning Man Festival in Nevada.

Politics
Montana billionaire ponies up
Fair Oaks Finance LLC popped up on the presidential campaign radar late last month when the
pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future disclosed a donation of $250,000 from the Hamiltonbased company. The contribution was one of several listed without any donor identity, raising questions about whom the cash came from.
The better question for Montanans might be:
What exactly is Fair Oaks Finance?
The company shares a physical address in
Hamilton with Henderson and Associates PLLC, an
accounting and tax preparation firm. A call to
Henderson and Associates, however, turned up no
information on Fair Oaks.
According to records from the Montana
Secretary of State, Fair Oaks Finance’s principal
agent is none other than Charles R. Schwab, the selfmade investment-broker billionaire who owns a
cabin in the Bitterroot Valley. Schwab—ranked 58 on
Forbes’ list of the 400 richest Americans—has been a
major financial player in federal races for years. He

and his wife Helen were ranked by Mother Jones
among the top 75 contributors to Republican campaigns in 1998.
The current electoral cycle has been a big one
for Schwab. The $250,000 donation from Fair Oaks
came on top of two separate $125,000 personal contributions to Restore Our Future—one from Schwab
and one from his wife. Schwab has maxed-out his
allowable personal donations to Romney’s presidential campaign, a total of $5,000, and has donated
nearly $100,000 to various GOP candidates and
national Republican committees. One of those
Republican beneficiaries is Congressman Denny
Rehberg, whose Senate-race coffers boast $5,000 of
Schwab’s money.
Not all of Schwab’s political contributions are
winding up in conservative pockets, however.
Federal disclosure records for the Charles Schwab
Corporation’s own PAC show a number of disbursements to Democratic candidates, including
California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and
Montana Sen. Jon Tester.
As for Fair Oaks Finance, we’re still in the dark
on what the company actually does. A representative

from the Charles Schwab Corporation couldn’t offer
the Indy any answers, since Schwab’s Hamilton
company isn’t their business.
Alex Sakariassen

UM
Multiple-choice test
It’s May, which means admissions offices at
college campuses around the country are buzzing,
and they’re all focused on one thing: yield, the
percentage of admitted students who actually
enroll. While the University of Montana operates
under a rolling-admissions system, meaning
enrollment numbers won’t be solid until
September, the admissions office is keeping an
especially close eye on its yield this spring in the
wake of a string of sexual assault allegations, some
involving football players, that have damaged the
school’s image.
“We are concerned, of course,” says Jed
Liston, UM’s Assistant Vice President for
Enrollment. “Any kind of publicity that is in a negative tone, I get concerned.”

Take integrity over
popularity and you'll
always be cool.
~ Carlos Santana

Missoula Independent Page 6 May 3 – May 10, 2012

Inside

Letters

Briefs

And negative publicity just keeps coming. On
Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced
its investigation into how the university, and the city
and county, have handled the sexual assault cases.
The announcement followed the high-profile firings
of UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s football coach and athletic director in late
March. Late last year, reports surfaced that two UM
students were drugged and gang-raped by several male students. UM hired an outside investigator, who uncovered nine cases of alleged sexual
assault between September 2010 and December
2011. And the federal Department of Education
received a complaint alleging harassment by
members of the football team.
Liston wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t disclose how many applications UM received this year, but he says the numberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on par with recent years. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too early to
make any determinations about whether concerns over student safety will affect enrollment,
he says, though his office has noted an uptick in
the number of calls from prospective students
and their parents asking about it.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I suppose we have some who have said,
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken [UM] off my list,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Liston says,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;but when we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have, necessarily, a May 1
deadline, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily know. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to
continue with business as usual.â&#x20AC;?
That means aggressively reaching out to admitted applicants. For the first time, President Royce
Engstrom sent a letter to each one, but that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in
response to the bad publicity, Liston says.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a big, emotional decision,â&#x20AC;? Liston adds,
referring to what prospective students are facing.
And those decisions will have a big impact on
UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget.
Matthew Frank

Media
Local programming torched
Some longtime listeners of 96.3 The Blaze
thought it was a joke when they first heard
Nickelback on the station. When they heard Creed,
others were convinced the locally programmed
home of hard rock, which prides itself on playing
deep cuts and regional artists, was running some sort
of twisted contest; they started writing down â&#x20AC;&#x153;nonBlazeâ&#x20AC;? songs in hopes of winning a prize.
There was no prize. The songs marked an April
18 switch that put The Blazeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playlist under direct
corporate control.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will confirm that I am no longer in charge of
programming music at The Blaze,â&#x20AC;? says Angel
Hughes, who has been at the station since 2001 and

had been in charge of its playlist since 2002. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My format leader and the vice president of programming at
Townsquare Media are now in charge of what listeners hear on the air. We had a good 12-year run with
the original format, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my sincere hope thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
an audience for the new format, because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t plan
on going anywhere.â&#x20AC;?

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mess with Jenks

Townsquare owns The Blaze and six other
Missoula stations, as well as more than 200 radio stations in 17 states. The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock format leader
is in Grand Rapids, Mich. Kurt Johnson, the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior vice president of programming, is based
in Greenwich, Conn.
Sources familiar with the old format say the
playlist has been cut from roughly 1,100 songs to 400
more mainstream selections. The stationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-hour
Sunday evening show, Local 406, is the only programming not affected.
The most visible backlash is a Facebook group,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Creed Makes Babies Cry: Stop Playing
Creed/Nickelback on 96.3 The Blaze.â&#x20AC;? It received
more than 130 â&#x20AC;&#x153;likesâ&#x20AC;? in a week.
Shawna Batt, Townsquare Mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general manager for the Missoula market, says it was her decision
to switch the station from â&#x20AC;&#x153;active rockâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;mainstream rock.â&#x20AC;? While The Blaze pulled strong ratings
with males ages 18-49, she says, the new format will
target adults 25-54. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the target demographic
national advertisers are looking for.â&#x20AC;?
Shawn Whitney, host of his trademarked
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rockstar Radioâ&#x20AC;? show, worked at The Blaze for four
years before being fired last year and landing at The
Montana Radio Company. He says changes at The
Blaze arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t surprising in light of industry trends, but
still mark a loss for the Missoula music scene.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s becoming background music instead of des-

Newly appointed municipal Judge Kathleen
Jenks says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distressing to see the same faces in her
courtroom week in and week out.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is really frustrating to have people coming in
with new charges when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supposed to be on
probation,â&#x20AC;? she says. When those people are repeatedly accused of crimes such as drunk driving and
partner or family member assault, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s especially troubling for Jenks.
Court staffers say that part of the problem is that
the Missoula Municipal Court hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offered a consistent supervision program to ensure offenders fulfill
court mandates like abstaining from alcohol, paying
fines and attending anger management classes. The
gap in oversight increases the odds offenders will get
in trouble again.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The philosophy behind it is, your municipal
court is first stop,â&#x20AC;? says Municipal Court
Administrator Tina Schmaus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a meaningful
interface the first time, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see you again.â&#x20AC;?
Jenks replaced Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Municipal Judge
Donald Louden in December. During his decades on
the bench, Louden earned a reputation for being
lenient. Since taking over the court, Jenks has
worked to increase the courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efficiency and ensure
offenders receive more stringent oversight.
With that in mind, Jenks is asking Missoula City
Council to approve creation of a new misdemeanor
supervision program to better track individuals convicted of serious offenses. If council approves the
proposal, Missoula Correctional Services would
oversee the program. The court would contract with
MCS for $172,935 annually. In exchange, MCS
would provide probation officers to keep track of up
to 160 defendants at any given time. Defendants
who violate the terms of their release could be taken
into custody.
Municipal court revenue generated by fines
would cover the cost of the program; so far this year,
the court has brought in $111,000 in DUI fines alone.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It comes out of our coffers,â&#x20AC;? Jenks says. She sees the
investment as a no-brainer.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just about accountability. ... I
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that you have any justice without
accountability, or progress in treatment without
accountability.â&#x20AC;?
Jessica Mayrer

Justice

BY THE NUMBERS
$197,191.88

Cost of a recent ad campaign attacking
Rep. Denny Rehbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bid for the U.S.
Senate. The ads were purchased by
Patriot Majority USA, a Democratic
PAC.

etc.
Last week, Missoula City Councilman and U.S.
Congressional candidate Dave Strohmaier rolled out a
new campaign ad that stopped us in our tracks.
The ad features Strohmaier in his usual widebrimmed hat presiding over the staged wedding of two
women at Caras Park.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;How dare the government tell us who can and cannot marry?â&#x20AC;? Strohmaier asks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Congress â&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll support
marriage equality.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow,â&#x20AC;? we thought. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far out.â&#x20AC;? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen political operatives paint male politicians as effeminate in an
effort to discredit them. In 2010, blogger Montana Cowgirl
posted a picture of Democratic legislative candidate
Kendell Van Dyk looking butch holding a freshly harvested
buck. The caption read â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man.â&#x20AC;? Next to Van Dyk, Cowgirl
posted a picture of Republican legislative candidate Roy
Brown carrying a handbag. Under Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photo, the caption read â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man-purse.â&#x20AC;?
That kind of stuff isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t uncommon in Montana. But
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen a politician air an ad that portrays
gays in a sympathetic light in an effort to gain favor in
a statewide election.
Strohmaier is one of seven Democrats, three
Republicans and one Libertarian campaigning to fill U.S.
Congressman Denny Rehbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soon-to-be-vacated seat.
His stunt seemed all the more radical considering that
some observers think Strohmaier is already too far left to
prevail in a statewide race. We would have thought heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d
be toning it down.
When we caught up with Strohmaier this week, he
said that the ad grew from his frustration with middle-ofthe-road rhetoric from overly cautious politicians.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;What many folks are looking for is authenticity in a
candidate,â&#x20AC;? Strohmaier says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m no Republican lite.â&#x20AC;?
We admire that but we wonder: Is it effective?
Strohmaierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fundraising has not been as fruitful as
some of the other Democratic challengersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.
Opensecrets.org reports that as of March 31, Sen. Kim
Gillan, of Billings, had raised $242,752; Rep. Franke
Wilmer, from Bozeman, $232,461; and Whitefish businesswoman Diane Smith, $137,612. Strohmaier had $100,412.
Republican frontrunner Steve Daines raised $890,951.
Between April 26 and May 1, Strohmaierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ad was
viewed on YouTube more than 5,500 times and featured
in the national gay magazine Out.
But perhaps thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another way to look at this. If you
know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re facing long odds anyway, why not fight for the
things you believe?
Go get â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em, Dave.

Candid camera
At the MPG Ranch, a watchful eye on the wild
by Matthew Frank

Late last year, Alan Ramsey was combing through videos taken at night by one of
his remote cameras on the MPG Ranch, east
of Florence, when he saw a skunk. It was
small and spotted, with a wispy whitetipped tail—conspicuously different from
the common striped skunk. Ramsey
checked a field guide and realized he had
captured a western spotted skunk,
Spilogale gracilis, which is seldom
observed in the region. The Montana
Natural Heritage Program has recorded
only 19 other sightings of the skunk in the
state, where it’s classified as a “species of
concern.” Ramsey’s was the first in the
Bitterroot Valley in more than 20 years.

Then, a few weeks ago, another one of
Ramsey’s cameras, located a couple
drainages away from the first, recorded a
second spotted skunk rummaging around
the brush. The sightings are enough to convince Ramsey that western spotted skunks
call the MPG Ranch’s arid hillsides home.
Perhaps the solitary, nocturnal animals
always have. “Maybe they’re not that rare,”
he says. “It’s just that nobody’s ever going
to see it.” Unless, like Ramsey, you have
about 100 cameras spread out over an
8,600-acre mountainside ranch, recording
or photographing the movements of all
kinds of animals, from mountain lions to
wild horses, all about 10 miles south of
Missoula as the crow flies.
The diversity helps explain why the
rare skunk doesn’t rank very high among
Ramsey’s favorite finds. “We’ve gotten lions
with deer hanging out of their mouths,” he
says. “We found a wolf with a decapitated
mule deer head hanging out of its mouth.
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grazing deer taken by an infrared camera
and a BuckEye photo of a bounding wolverine. They have shots of mountain lion cubs
and bobcat kittens.
Mark Hebblewhite, an ungulate habitat
ecologist at UM, says MPG Ranch’s monitoring network is “unprecedented, as far as I
know, in this part of the world,” offering
researchers a new way to estimate wildlife
populations.
That’s the primary purpose of the
ranch’s elaborate imaging system (the
ranch counted more than 400 elk last fall),
but it’s also, Franczyk says, so the owner of
the land “can keep an eye on it and keep
connected with the property and see
what’s happening, and
what’s changing.”
It isn’t always
wildlife that’s captured.
Last October, two
hunters who didn’t
have permission to be
on the ranch winched a
dead elk with a fourwheeler, dragged it
right in front of a camera and proceeded to
field dress it. When they
noticed the camera, one
of the hunters threw his
coat over it. It wasn’t
enough to prevent state
wildlife officials from
busting them.
Alan Ramsey pulls
up
a
Suburban and we
Photo courtesy of MPG Ranch
head out for a tour of
20 people, including several University of the ranch. We’re specifically looking for wild
Montana-trained ecologists who are work- horses; there are about 25 in four herds that
ing to rid the ranch of invasive species and live in these hills. Locals say the horses have
been around here for at least a century,
improve native habitat.
MPG Holdings, LLC, based in the gone feral when ranchers left to fight in
Chicago area but originally formed in World War I. Some neighbors apparently
Wyoming, acquired the ranch in 2009. don’t like the horses and consider them
Ranch manager Philip Ramsey, Alan’s broth- pests, because they can damage fences and
er, declines to name its owners. He calls compete with elk for forage. We drive a twothem “very private and generous people.” track road around ridges and up into the
The company also owns property in the trees, glassing the sagebrush hills. When the
Swan Valley, near Condon, that is also man- truck can’t make it up a muddy incline, we
continue on foot. We stop and scan the
aged for restoration and conservation.
On a recent cool and overcast day, ridges between us and the Miller Creek
inside a house on the MPG Ranch, Alan drainage, just south of Missoula. We don’t
Ramsey and Nick Franczyk, the ranch’s tech- spot any horses, and turn back.
That night, Philip Ramsey, the ranch
nology director, are in front of the computer that collects video and images, including manager, emails me photos taken that day
those sent from the 30 BuckEye cameras, by a BuckEye camera affixed to a tree in the
which are motion-activated and transmit area where we walked. At 12:28 p.m., it
wirelessly. Those images are automatically photographed me. At 3:41 p.m., a massive
uploaded to www.mpgranch.com. They mountain lion slunk by in the same spot.
hope the site will eventually host real-time
video. Franczyk displays a thermal image of
mfrank@missoulanews.com
things.” One of his cameras recently recorded nesting geese chasing off a coyote, and a
squirrel carrying a pine cone to the creek to
wash it. “I never heard of a squirrel having
any reason to wash their pine cones in the
creek,” he says.
Ramsey is the MPG Ranch’s wildlife
videographer. It’s an unlikely position for
the lanky, laid-back 37-year-old who used to
work as a portrait painter. But he’s found a
niche curating videos of wildlife roaming
the ranch below Baldy Mountain. That is, in
fact, largely why the ranch exists—for
wildlife. Since there are no cattle, MPG
doesn’t meet the traditional definition of a
“working” ranch. But it employs more than

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The also-ran
Tester isn’t the only one Rehberg’s up against
by Alex Sakariassen

Dennis Teske led a quiet, unassuming and this primary is no exception. But I think out in politics,” Iverson says. “Denny had a
life before 2012. He grew up near Chinook, everybody realizes that Denny is the only primary challenge in 2010, which he won
handily. We expect the same type of result
moved away for much of his adult life, then one who can beat Jon Tester in the fall.”
Some of Teske’s campaign promises this time around.”
settled down 15 years ago with his wife Rita
In that race, Rehberg won 74 percent
on a farm in rural Terry. Teske, 61, says he’d resemble Rick Perry’s failed presidential
never had much interest in politics. Never bid—namely his call to eliminate the federal of the primary vote.
Teske can’t hope to compete with the
departments of Energy and Education.
ran, never served, never really wanted to.
Now Teske’s a surprise side note in the Others bear some similarity to Tea Party kind of name recognition Rehberg comhottest race in the state. Come June 5, mantras, such as shifting more control to mands after six terms in Congress, either.
Republican voters in Montana will choose the hands of the states and emphasizing a But he’s trying. In the past few months, he
estimates he’s put 20,000
whom to pit against
miles on his car traveling from
Democratic incumbent Sen.
one corner of the state to
Jon Tester this fall: Teske, a
another. He’s trekked from
name as unfamiliar to most as
one county Republican party
the town of Terry, or veteran
event to the next, trying to
congressman Denny Rehberg.
keep up with Rehberg and the
“I had stewed for way too
rest of the GOP’s electoral conlong and not done anything,”
tingent. “Any Lincoln-Reagan
Teske says. “I’d just written my
dinner, anybody that would
letters and my emails. I’m not
host us or listen to us, we’ve
a political guy at all… For crygone to their front door to
ing out loud, I’m a farmer,
talk,” Teske says.
just a small business guy. But
He’s a blip on the latest
it’s finally become apparent
poll from Public Policy Polling,
to me that nobody listens.”
not even listed by name.
Teske filed against
Teske gets it. While the
Rehberg in Montana’s
voters he’s met have proven
Republican primary in
receptive to his bid, he says,
January. His motivation, he
the party itself has been hesisays, was mounting frustratant to show support. To the
tion with the way the federal
GOP, Teske says, Rehberg
government has operated
seemed like the “easiest route”
over the past few years. Our
in winning the 2012 Senate
country’s in debt, he says,
race. They’re out to topple
our government can’t stop
Tester. “Right now, the percepspending and our politicians
tion is Denny has the most
aren’t
obeying
the
horsepower to get the job
Constitution. Above all, Teske
done.” He doesn’t fault them.
says, the federal government
Photo courtesy of Dennis Teske
“All these races, whether
is doing way too much.
it’s with Rehberg or the secre“We have to stand up Rehberg primary challenger Dennis Teske
tary of state or the attorney
and say, ‘No more,’” Teske
says. “We have to take care of these prob- strong devotion to the Constitution. He dis- general, competition is best,” Teske says.
lems for ourselves at a local level. And if we agrees with the move by public schools to “Voices get heard, and politics, to me,
can’t do it locally, in our own counties, take discontinue daily recitation of the Pledge of they’re not fun or fair. We’re not looking for
Allegiance. The Patriot Act is a sore spot for fun or fair. We’re looking to be heard.”
it to the state.”
It’s springtime on the Teske farm. The
Rehberg appeared to have avoided any Teske, as is the National Defense
primary challenges last year. Tester’s origi- Authorization Act, both of which he says primary is just over a month away, but
nal Republican opponent, Bozeman busi- infringe on constitutional liberties. More Teske isn’t sure how much more time he’ll
nessman Steve Daines, dropped out of the than anything, he says, he feels the country put in on the campaign trail. He just got
his wheat in, and he’s got irrigation equipSenate race last spring, shortly after is spending itself into a hole.
“We’re a debtor nation,” Teske says, ment to tend and soybeans to plant. He
Rehberg declared his run. Rehberg intends
to keep his campaign’s sights set on unseat- “and we’re going to see the demise of this says his first political race is a gamble, but
he sees the odds.
country if we keep going down this road.”
ing Tester in November.
“I live in America,” Teske says. “I love
Rehberg’s camp is confident of a pri“Denny understands he has a primary
election to go through first,” says Rehberg mary win. Looking at the numbers, Teske this country, and I think my odds are as
campaign spokesman Erik Iverson. “He had faces very long odds. His campaign coffers good as anybody else’s.... You ever see that
one in 2010, he’s got another one in 2012. amount to $4,100, a fraction of Rehberg’s movie with Jimmy Stewart in it? Mr. Smith
He’s hitting as many of the county Lincoln- $4.5 million—and Teske himself has ponied Goes to Washington? That’s the America I
Reagan Day dinners as he can. He’s making up $2,400 of that sum. Of the rest, $1,000 believe in.”
phone calls, our staff ’s out knocking on came in a single contribution from a donor
doors. Denny takes every election seriously, in Casper, Wyo. “You never rule anything
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Livingston’s battle
Trial examines fault in pollution
In 1989, newly elected Montana Gov.
Stan Stephens was in Livingston to tour
Burlington Northern’s rail yard and locomotive shop before meeting with members
of the public and the town council. The
issue? Possible pollution of Livingston’s
groundwater by toxic wastes spilled or discarded by Burlington Northern.
This week, a trial opened in Great
Falls, where more than a hundred residents
are seeking remediation and remuneration
from the pollution that continues to spread
beneath their community as Burlington
Northern fights a cleanup.
Gov. Stephens was ill-equipped to
understand the implications of what he was
about to see that day in 1989. But in the
group that accompanied him, there was no
lack of those who did. Environmental
cleanup advocates included Rep. Bob
Raney, who was born and raised in
Livingston and spent 25 years as a conductor on the same line that had polluted the
community he represented in the state legislature. Jim Jensen, the executive director
of the Montana Environmental Information
Center, was also there.
There were also state bureaucrats, consultants hired by Burlington Northern and
Burlington Northern’s vice president of
communications and public affairs. And
there were reporters, clicking away with
35mm film cameras, and a couple of guys
there to videotape the whole thing for posterity—Warren McGee, Livingston’s famed
historical railroad photographer, and me.
The tour began in the rail yard, as the
bureaucrats and consultants tried to
explain what Gov. Stephens was looking at.
There was a giant unlined pit that had been
dug and then filled with thousands of gallons of petroleum distillates such as the solvents used to clean locomotive parts. That
it was leaching through to groundwater
seemed obvious, since this was Livingston,
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River and squarely within the porous alluvial gravels that the massive river has
deposited throughout geologic time.
Do we know how many gallons of
waste are in the groundwater? asked
Stephens.
No, that’s hard to estimate, he was
told. It’s still being studied.
Do we know what’s in it? asked the
governor.

The group gathered
around a test well
where a clean
white pipe was
lowered into
Livingston’s
groundwater. And
then up it came,
completely covered
in thick black goo.
Not really, he was told, they’re complex mixtures, some may have degraded.
The highlight of the tour came when
the group gathered around a test well
where a clean white pipe was lowered
into Livingston’s groundwater. And then
up it came, the pipe completely covered
in thick black goo that went well up the
white rope, too.
The entourage went silent. Gov.
Stephens seemed stunned. No amount of

obfuscation by Burlington Northern or
state bureaucrats could obscure this.
That night, in a town council meeting
and discussions with residents, details
emerged about petroleum and solvent
fumes penetrating basements, bad water in
wells and concerns about the effects the
pollution would have on the community.
But by then, the gooey pipe was gone from
sight, and the promises made by politicians
were never kept.
The history of Livingston’s contamination reads like a primer on how to avoid
cleanup costs and liability by hiring politically connected law firms and lobbyists to
delay accruing cleanup costs. Apparently,
it’s cheaper to hire lawyers for decades
than it is to address the reality that some
pollution, such as what Burlington
Northern left in Livingston’s groundwater,
may never be cleaned up. The state now
says the plume of contaminants has
migrated through the groundwater and
penetrated the bedrock below.
Nearly a quarter century later, this saga
goes to a courtroom where a jury will finally hear the citizens’ side of the story as they
seek redress for the damages done to them,
their property and their futures. Burlington
Northern is expected to argue that it handled materials with reasonable care, in conformance with standard industry practices
and in accordance with applicable law.
Perhaps when the jury sees that
ancient video of the black pipe coming out
of the test well, it will understand that it is
always much better to avoid pollution than
to try and clean it up. And maybe, just
maybe, justice will finally be on its way to
long-suffering residents of Livingston.
Helena’s George Ochenski rattles
the cage of the political establishment
as a political analyst for the
Independent. Contact Ochenski at
opinion@missoulanews.com.

Horse slaughter is back on the table.
What amounted to a congressional ban
against the practice ended when the 2011
Agriculture Appropriations bill reinstated
federal funding for inspecting horses
before they’re sent to a slaughterhouse.
It’s hard to know what will happen
next. The Bureau of Land Management’s
advisory board overseeing free-ranging
horses and burros has been stacked with
pro-slaughter ranching advocates who
are only thinly disguised as neutral citizens. One recently appointed member
advocates for commercial slaughter as a
management strategy for wild horses.
The board is pro-slaughter because
that is all the BLM has ever been, ever
since the days when it helped round up
wild horses for Rin Tin Tin’s dog bowl in
the 1920s. The federal agency has long
backed the interests of the ranching,
recreation, development and dog-food
industries, despite running a few adoption programs in an attempt to pacify
annoying horsey lovers like me.
For those who would argue that the
BLM is at least trying to help wild horses—even by sending them to slaughter
for their own good—I ask, Since when
have Americans set the bar so low? How
can we possibly find it acceptable to
house over 34,000 horses, more than
half of the American wild horse population, in BLM holding pens to await an
uncertain fate that is likely to end in
slaughter? And why did it take a lawsuit
before Laura Leigh, reporter for
Horseback Magazine, could gain access
to the BLM’s wild horse roundups?
When the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled in her favor this year, it
said that “an open government has been
the hallmark of our democracy since our
nation’s founding.”
The more disappointing aspect of
the debate about slaughtering horses is
that it evades the real issues. Why don’t
we admit that slaughter has never been
an effective means to control or manage
populations of unwanted, used-up and
abandoned horses, whether they’re wild
or domestic?
There is just no way to make slaughtering equines humane. A bolt-gun is
generally shot into an animal’s brain to
render it unconscious, but this method
fails to work with horses. The animals
resist the restraint and then panic, filled
with fear. Given the combination of the
large, terrified animals and the typically
unskilled and low-paid workers who are
hired to process them on the assembly

line, the situation is a set-up for extreme
animal cruelty. This is well documented
in reports by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.

The board is
pro-slaughter
because that is all
the BLM has ever
been, ever since
the days when it
helped round up
wild horses for Rin
Tin Tin’s dog bowl
in the 1920s.

We should be ashamed of ourselves
after all these years for being so ill
informed and for being as willing as we
are to deliberately close our eyes to the
facts. What happened to the pride we
once had, back when we saw wild horses
as living symbols of our national heritage?
Continuing the same old captureand-removal routine for wild horses has
never worked, while slaughter just gives

breeders license to abandon horses at
will, permits kill-buyers to thrive, allows
racehorse owners to dispose of horses
that proved disappointing at the track
and enables horse owners who fail to
train their animals properly to shirk their
responsibility. What’s more, it perpetuates a sad history: Thousands of U.S.
warhorses went straight into the can
after meritorious service, starting with
World War I. And even with what
amounted to a ban on slaughtering horses in this country, the Government
Accounting Office reported that, in 2010
alone, approximately 138,000 U.S. horses were shipped off and slaughtered in
Canada and Mexico, where the equine
slaughter industry continues unabated.
What makes this shameful is that
here in the United States we have the
world’s first and only dedicated wildlife
fertility-control facility, the Science and
Conservation Center, in Billings. Led by
Jay Kirkpatrick, the world's foremost
researcher on fertility control in wild
horses, it has used PZP—Porcine Zona
Pellucida—a reversible, non-hormonal
contraceptive with a 24-year history of
success all over the country on urban
deer and 85 species of zoo animals,
including wild bison, and even on 14 different populations of African elephants
in the Republic of South Africa. Why we
haven’t been routinely using PZP here in
this country is a mystery.
Contraception works, and it is especially critical for us to implement this
approach now that it has finally been
approved for use in wild horses by the
Environmental Protection Agency. For
years, Australia and other countries have
cited PZP’s lack of “official” U.S. endorsement as a reason for selecting a “by any
means necessary” approach to the disposal of wild horses.
Unfortunately, those “any means
necessary” include aerial shooting, chasing and rounding up animals from horseback, capture and removal and, of
course, slaughtering them for domestic
pet food and overseas meat consumption. We have the technology to control
overpopulation of wild horses, and it is
long past time for us to use it. We should
know by now that slaughter is the wrong
way to go.
Mae Lee Sun is a contributor to
Writers on the Range, a service of High
Country News (hcn.org ). She is the editor of the Wild Horse Journal.

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Certainly, if you were raised in the city, there
were parts of town you were forbidden to go to.
Usually it was the cool places—neighborhoods
with ditches, broken-down cars and cool kids who

ever seeing what the other is doing. The 2001
film Promises introduces us to these children and
shows us how different the lives of Jewish Israelis
and Palestinians are. Later, the filmmakers intro-

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Promises
shot cats with pellet guns and launched small
frogs from slingshots. But what if instead of your
mom telling you that you couldn’t go to the
house across the way, the government erected a
concrete wall and strung it with razor wire and
topped it with shards of sharp, colored glass?
That’s the reality for kids in Jerusalem. They grow
up and play minutes from one another without

duce the children to one another. Not surprisingly, the children share many traits and many similar joys. But these are children, and when the filmmakers return a few years later, things might not
be the same anymore.
The Peace and Justice Film Series presents Promises on Thu., May 3, at 7 PM, in the
Gallagher Business Building, Room 122.

FRIDAY MAY 4

TUESDAY MAY 8

For builders interested in strutting their stuff for a
good cause, get onboard (ha!) and sign-up for the
10th Annual Boys and Girls Club Playhouse and
Pet Palace Auction Fundraiser. Build something
rad. Show it off at Southgate Mall. Auction it off in
June. Contact Anne for specifics at 239-6505.

David Cobb of the national Move to Amend coalition
is the guest of the Missoula Moves to Amend
organization and he is here to talk about why Citizens
United needs to go away forever. UM Clapp Bldg. Rm.
131. 7 PM. Free.

SUNDAY MAY 6
Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place
at the Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 2–4 PM. occupymissoula.org.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 13 PM. For information, call 543-3955.
The Candidates’ Forum at Valley Christian School hosts
a variety of candidates, including those vying for County
Commissioner, Public Service Commissioner, State
Senate and State Reps. 2526 Sunset Ln. (in the auditorium). 6–9 PM. Contact Gloria for more info. at 251-5961.
YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA
Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8
PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups.
Free. Call 543-6691.

THURSDAY MAY 10
The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting
and Soup Social takes place from 4:30–6 PM at the
Montana Natural History Center. Let’s talk traffic and
playground equipment. 120 Hickory.
Find how to support the College of Technology
and keep the UM Golf Course during a meeting at
the Sentinel High School Cafeteria. 5:30–6:30 PM.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your
who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can
also e-mail entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible,
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I N OTHER N EWS
Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Investigators identified Thomas McMartin, 56, as the person who planted a
motion-activated camera in a women’s locker room at New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute because
he inadvertently photographed himself setting up the camera. “We have recovered numerous still photos
which do indicate numerous female adults in various stages of undress, and we have recovered digital evidence which implicates the defendant,” Troy police Capt. John Cooney said. (Troy’s The Record)
State police said Christopher Wallace, 42, broke into a home in Lake Ariel, Pa., and stole several items, but
“was greedy” and returned to the residence looking for more loot. The suspect went to the second floor,
where he opened a door that led to the outside and fell approximately 20 feet to the ground. He broke
his back, his hip and an arm. (Honesdale’s Wayne Independent)
REPLY-ALL FOLLIES - London-based Aviva Investors inadvertently sent an email notifying its entire worldwide staff of 1,300 workers that they’d been dismissed and reminding them to turn over company property as they left their workplace. “It was intended that this email should have gone to one single person,”
company official Paul Lockstone explained, adding, “From time to time, things go wrong.” (Bloomberg
News)
EXTRATERRESTRIAL THREAT - The British government added solar storms to its official list of threats to
national security. The update to the National Risk Register for Civil Emergencies warned that “severe space
weather” threatens communications systems, electronic circuits and power grids. (Associated Press)
SHORTSIGHTED MARKETING - When earthquakes in Indonesia revived memories of the 2004 Asian
tsunami that killed 230,000 people, including more than 8,000 in Thailand, KFC Thailand recognized an
opportunity to sell fried chicken. It posted a Facebook message urging people to “hurry home and follow
the earthquake news. And don’t forget to order your favorite KFC menu.” (Associated Press)
A Chinese company whose slogan is “You see the world, the world sees you” has begun selling Helen
Keller-brand sunglasses. Company official Chen Wenjing said the marketing team was aware of Keller’s
blindness but insisted the glasses were inspired by her traditions of philanthropy and optimism. (Time)
TEASE OF THE WEEK - German researcher Thomas Hildebrandt heads a project called Project Frozen
Dumbo, whose mission is to collect semen from wild elephants to avoid inbreeding among zoo elephants.
Hildebrandt, of Berlin’s Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, travels to South Africa and searches for wild
bulls by helicopter. He immobilizes the animals using a narcotic dart, then applies a procedure called “electro-ejaculation,” which uses a 5-to-15-volt charge to force out a sperm sample. The challenge, Hildebrandt
explained, is that the anesthetic in the dart triggers a muscle contraction that causes the elephant’s 1.5meter-long penis to retract into its cavity. “In order to extract the sperm hygienically, we have to get the tip
out and clean it,” Hildebrandt explained, noting that doing so takes some teasing. The sperm is then collected and immediately frozen. It costs roughly $130,000 to collect three liters of elephant sperm, enough
to impregnate 65 cows—theoretically speaking, because although Project Frozen Dumbo has been collecting semen this way for two years, no female elephant has yet to be successfully inseminated with sperm
that has been previously frozen. “But we’re close to it,” Hildebrandt said. “We’re very, very optimistic.”
(Sweden’s The Local)
WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - Police accused Lawrence Deptola, 49, of trying to rob three banks
in Utica, N.Y., by threatening tellers with a toilet plunger. He was apprehended outside the third bank.
(Utica’s WKTV-TV)
GOOD NEWS FOR TED NUGENT - Mayor Bob Buckhorn issued a list of items that will be considered
security threats at this summer’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. On it are masks, plastic or
metal pipe, string more than six inches long, air pistols and water pistols. Real pistols, however, are allowed.
“If we’d tried to regulate guns, it wouldn’t have worked,” City Attorney Jim Shimberg said, noting that state
law bans all restrictions on carrying firearms in public places. “Any local ordinance that regulates guns is
void.” (Tampa Bay Times)
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? - After more than 60 years of strict regulation and licensing requirements,
Tokyo’s city government announced it’s relaxing rules governing the preparation of blowfish, known as
fugu. Until now, aspiring fugu chefs had to apprentice with a veteran chef for at least two years before taking rigorous written and practical exams, whose fee runs to $220. The requirements assure that chefs know
how to separate the edible parts of the fish from organs filled with tetrododoxin, which is deadlier than
cyanide. “There is the hope that the number of restaurants with unlicensed chefs serving blowfish will rise,
and that blowfish as an ingredient will be used not only for traditional Japanese foods, but also others such
as Chinese and Western foods,” said Hironobu Kondo, an official at the city’s Food Control Department,
indicating that outside Tokyo, where blowfish regulations are already more relaxed, “there are hardly any
poison-related accidents.” (Reuters)
BOVINE EPISODES - A sheriff’s deputy who pulled over a Honda Civic in Luna County, N.M., reported
the vehicle contained three men and a 220-pound calf in the backseat. When the men couldn’t produce
a bill of sale for the animal, they were arrested on suspicion of rustling. (Carlsbad Current-Argus)
After two hikers found six frozen cows wedged inside a remote log cabin in the Colorado Rockies, the U.S.
Forest Service said it faces the problem of how to dispose of the carcasses now that they’re thawing. “They’re
going to be scavenged,” Forest Service official Steve Segin said, identifying the biggest concern as bears coming out of hibernation. “We don’t want a bad encounter between people and wildlife.” Because the cabin is
in the protected Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area outside Aspen, restrictions hamper the cows’
removal. “We can’t use any mechanical means,” Segin said. “No aircraft, no helicopters, no chain saws, no
ATVs.” There’s also a fire ban. As a result, the Forest Service is considering blowing up the cabin with the
cows inside. The Colorado Cattleman’s Association said the animals probably entered the cabin seeking shelter during a snowstorm, couldn’t figure out how to exit it and starved to death. (Denver’s KMGH-TV)
HOW OTHER GOVERNMENTS DEFINE CHEATING - Pal Schmitt announced his resignation as president of Hungary after Budapest’s Semmelweis University revoked his doctorate because he plagiarized
most of his dissertation. Schmitt, who was elected to a five-year term in 2010, told Parliament his “personal issue” is dividing the country. (Associated Press)

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hen David Boone steps
onstage under the hot
lights, cheers erupt.
Boone, who is 31 and
handsome, with sparkling green eyes, a
trimmed beard and brown locks that fall
loosely past his ears, looks like a rock
star, although he isn’t, not just yet.
Boone lays into his guitar like he’s
wrestling it down and belts out “It’s better to love than to lose it all,” leaning
fiercely, abruptly, into the mic, writhing
to his driving rhythm. His voice is warm
and graveled—bold enough to capture a
room and distressed enough to illuminate slivers of urgency and heartbreak.
The song resounds in Missoula’s
cozy Monk’s Bar. There are seven musicians backing him up, including two
drummers, but Boone owns this night,

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which is a celebration for his new music
project, Dawns.
At one long wooden table sit DJs
from The Trail 103.3 FM, the rock radio
station, which is a sponsor of this show
and has put Boone’s new batch of songs
in regular rotation.
Tonight is also the premier of one of
Boone’s new music videos, which is projected onto the wall of Monk’s. It’s locally made and surprisingly well crafted,
showing a young couple wandering
along the wintry banks of Rattlesnake
Creek, riding the Caras Park carousel and
eating ice cream by the railroad tracks.
The guy blindfolds the girl and leads her
through an old house into a dark backyard, where she’s surprised by a group of
friends standing around a campfire. It’s
her birthday. A little boy brings her a can-

dlelit cake. As she blows the candles out,
the video ends.
The song, “Tail Lights,” has an
Americana pop sound, with a swelling
chorus that feels like the aural translation of an endorphin high. Boone
recorded it in September 2011 in
London with a major producer. It’s a big
step up for Boone, from coffeehouse
singer-songwriter to collaborating with
a large cast of musicians and making
high-production albums with music
videos to match.
Boone, a songwriting machine, has
been playing folk and rock around
Missoula for over a decade. He creates
the same kind of keen, raw songs that
draw people to Bruce Springsteen. Like
Springsteen, Boone’s a showman who
somehow shows little sign of ego.

Yet Boone has struggled with manic
depression for most of his adult life.
Aptly, perhaps, he tends to write in two
different veins: stark folk songs about gritty realities and bright, dramatic pop songs
that even have string arrangements.
Now, with interest from a hotshot
producer and a surge in local radio play,
he seems to be on the brink of stardom,
of fulfilling his dreams and the dreams of
thousands and thousands of others who
chase that one big break, never knowing
when it will come, or if, or where. But
Boone will know where it began.

CRUSHED
When William Boone was a young
man, he rode his horse into a small
Northern California town and saw Mary

IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO MAKE DAVID BOONE A ROCK STAR
by Erika Fredrickson • photos by Steele Williams

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Healy for the first time, sitting under an
apple tree. In time, the couple settled
near Seeley Lake, in Dogtown. They lived
in a small three-bedroom house on an
acre of land, which William bought from
his brother-in-law for $1. Mary raised
cocker spaniels and Persian cats for sale.
William worked at the sawmill. Their children—David Boone and his two brothers
and two sisters—played in their yard and
were pulled on inner tubes down snowy
back roads by William on his snowmobile. It was beautiful. David was happy.
He knows they were poor but he doesn’t
remember feeling it. When he describes
that time—“Grinding our own deer meat
on the kitchen table … going fishing,
running down the road”—it’s like he’s
sifting through rubble for proof of it.
The Boones went to church every
Sunday and sang hymns. Mary didn’t
want David to listen to rock music but
William would sneak out to his truck
with his son and they’d listen to Jimi
Hendrix and Janis Joplin. David was
about 7 when he got his first guitar. A
week later, William accidentally crushed
it as he and the boy were wrestling. It
took another five years before David got

another, at Christmas. His parents said
he’d been bad all year and wasn’t getting
anything. But when he went to help his
sister get her present from behind a curtain, there was an electric guitar and amp
waiting for him.
And then the darkness: His parents
divorced. Mary moved to Washington
state. His sisters went to live with family
friends. His older brother went to live
with their grandmother. His father moved
into a small cabin near their old Dogtown
house, where Boone and his younger
brother slept in a backyard camper.
Boone immersed himself in music,
listening to Top 40 and playing along to
Men At Work, Billy Joel and Fine Young
Cannibals. He traveled to Missoula to
buy his first albums: Tarkio, Toad the Wet
Sprocket, Nirvana’s In Utero and the
Counting Crows’s August and
Everything After.
His 7th and 8th grade teacher, Clifford
Nelson, became his role model and support. Nelson was an extraordinary
teacher, Boone says. “He probably could
have lived in a nice home, doing well for
himself, but he put everything into his
classes and teaching, in putting on plays

and taking kids to Glacier or Yellowstone
on field trips every year.”
Nelson introduced Boone to folk
music, artists such as Bob Dylan and Don
McClean. When Boone started his first
band, Faucet, in high school, Nelson
helped them record an album. He also
got them their first paid gig, at SeeleySwan High School’s homecoming.
A day after the dance, Nelson was
murdered in his trailer. The crime has
never been solved.
“It was this chaotic, bizarre movie—a
nightmare,” Boone says.
The next semester, at 16, he dropped
out of school. He moved with a friend to
Mexico, where they rented a cinderblock
apartment and kept a pet scorpion.
When Boone returned to Montana nine
months later, he started playing music
again. He also began to unravel and was
diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He was
hospitalized several times and ended up
in the Montana State Hospital at Warm
Springs for a few months.
With the help of family and friends,
with medication and time, he began to
get better. He played in a band called
Open to Closure and played coffeeshops

and recorded solo albums with songs
about everything from religion to relationships. He started using songs to revisit his life in Seeley. “I know in theory that
I had the most beautiful childhood,” he
says. “And I’m always trying to find my
way back to that.”

HARD ENOUGH TO BEND
When Boone finally returned to
Seeley in his early 20s, after a five-year
absence, he took pictures of every street
he’d been down, of his childhood home
and the land where Nelson’s trailer once
stood. He printed and enlarged them and
hung them on the walls of an old barn,
where he set about making music. “I’m
going to take pictures of all the places
I’ve experienced emotional heartache
growing up,” he said at the time, “and
while I sing, I’m going to let them wreck
me again.”
The result was his fourth album, in
2006, Hard Enough to Bend, a gritty,
painfully honest gem. It wasn’t just great
for a local album; it’s some of the best
work by any singer-songwriter in the past
decade. On the opening track, “4th of

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July,” Boone recounts his dad seeing his
mom under that apple tree. The tenderness of the stories is cut deep by a minorkey weightiness. Stark contrasts give the
album texture and cohesion: The smalltown pleasures of Seeley Lake are coupled with the sorrow of broken families.
People who harden themselves to love
find that hard veneers are the most fragile of all. Everyone has heard these
themes before. What personalizes Hard
Enough to Bend are the details. Lyrical
turns like “I grew up on the outskirts of
heaven” followed by “You’d be surprised
but I ain’t never going back” show a
Springsteen-like awareness of what home
means. When he finishes “Norfolk Bay,”
Boone doesn’t just fade out; you can hear
him stand up and walk out of the studio,
still playing his guitar, a recording detail
that mimics the album’s frankness.

They went out, they drank tea and she
told him about the premonition. They
were engaged three months later. After
their wedding, they hit the road on a tour
of coffeehouses for a year and a half, where
their only rules were to spend no more
than $7 a day and never stay in hotels.
“It was hard, but looking back, it was
great,” Stephanie says. “I like when
you’re living that kind of life with no
attachments except hoping that your car
works and takes you to the next place.
We really got to know each other. After
that year, I thought, ‘If we can do that, we
can do anything.’”
Stephanie, a personal trainer and cofounder of The Girls Way, a nonprofit that
supports young girls through exercise and
educational activities, is similar to David in
some ways. They joke that because they’re
both dreamers, they are, together,

There are hard times in their relationship, too. Arguments. Failures.
Dropped responsibilities. But there’s little evidence of ruin. She knows that his
songs can arrive without warning and at
inconvenient times. “And it’s always
when we have to go somewhere,” she
says, laughing. “Like, if we’re about to go
out to dinner, he’ll be writing a song.
And then he just has to write it. That’s
how it works. I know that I’m married to
Boone, so I will always be late, forever.”

HERE’S TO LOSING CONTROL
David recalls a line from Orson
Welles’s The Third Man: “In Italy for 30
years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but
they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo
da Vinci and the Renaissance. In

David Boone with a child actor, left, and filmmaker Brandon Woodard, right, producing a video for his song “Better To
Love Than.”

LOVE, AT LAST
Stephanie Boone met her future husband for the first time in 2003, at
Missoula’s Break Espresso, where he and
Tom Catmull were performing their solo
works. David asked if she could move her
table to make room for them to play. She
obliged without thinking much of it.
Then, during Catmull’s song “Black
Coffee,” with the line “Black coffee in the
morning sure tastes fine with you,” she
had a sudden premonition.
“I’ve only had two in my life,” she
recalls, laughing. “And this one was me
and Dave walking down a wedding aisle
… So I was like, ‘Ohhh-kay. So, I guess I
have to ask this dude out.’”

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doomed. Still, Stephanie provides structure. If she were his manager, she’s told
him, she’d make him do yoga once a
week. She always has to be aware of his
mental health, she says, “and so does he.
And that’s forever. But I think it helps to
have a partner who’s in tune to you.”
There’s a palpable sweetness to this
relationship, a you-and-I-against-theworld vibe. When David says, “We play
shows three or four nights a week,” the
“we” means Stephanie and him, even
though she doesn’t play music. When
Stephanie tries to recall the name of her
favorite song of his—that country tune he
wrote during a five-minute soundcheck
at the Great Falls fair—she says, “I guess
we haven’t named it yet.”

Switzerland, they had brotherly love,
they had 500 years of democracy and
peace, and what did they produce? The
cuckoo clock.”
That’s how he’s always felt about
music: Art requires suffering.
After the stripped-down, isolated
Hard Enough to Bend, Boone wrote its
near-opposite, Tales of Gold, an album
filled with musicians and optimism. For
its release, he booked the Wilma Theatre
and pulled in a large crowd.
“I really wanted to go all-out on
arrangements and spare nothing and
take my time and work with everyone I’d
ever imagined working with,” he says. “It
was on the other end of the pendulum—
not dark, but very hopeful.”

Naturally, he followed that with State
of the Union, an aggressive, angry rock
album.
Yet, light or dark, as a musician and
an artist, Boone feared he was treading
water. It wasn’t that he wanted to be
famous; it was that he couldn’t stop writing songs, and he was envisioning huge
musical and visual projects that require
time and money, people and equipment.
In 2010, he was in the midst of building a house for himself and Stephanie.
The housing bubble had burst, so getting
loans to finish the job was difficult. He
was approaching 30, which, he says,
“strangely came with an inordinate
amount of pressure that I was putting on
myself. I was always building this home to
build a life to build a family to have something solid to be rooted to. But I was at
this pressure-cooker moment, creatively.
I was really wishing that my music by that
point had created the opportunity for me
to make the music I wanted to make, to
do the type of performances I wanted to
do … My walls were coming in.”
He kept wondering, At what point
do you give up on your dreams?
In desperation, he wrote an album’s
worth of songs in a week. He gathered
seven musician-friends and asked if
they’d fly to Bozeman with him and
record the songs for an album. It was a
Hail Mary play.
“Certain things had not worked out
up to that point,” he says. “I wasn’t
doing art the way I wanted to: unrestrained. There were a lot of limitations—at least in my own head. I was
like, ‘I’m going to do this album. I’m
frustrated. I’m upset with where I’m at
in life and I’m going to use that and I’m
going to break through a wall.’”
The first three days, nothing worked.
Boone and the others had brought with
them a lot of outboard equipment and
none of it was compatible with the studio. Each day marked money drained
from Boone’s already tight budget. When
they were up and running, it felt forced.
In order to now squeeze seven studio
days into four, the group recorded until 4
a.m. and then started again at 7 a.m.
Boone wasn’t sleeping or eating. He collapsed in the studio and ended up hospitalized for a day.
“It had been many years since I’d
gone through any of that,” he says. “The
guys I was working with just kept pushing forward with parts of the material
and the demos ended up getting
recorded, but … it was a disappointing,
bummer experience for everyone
involved.”
He returned to Missoula, to working
on the house and writing songs.
Meanwhile, he’d discovered The Doves
and some other U.K bands. Stephanie
thought his music might go over well in
the U.K. Maybe he should send a demo to
someone there?
He looked up the producer of The
Doves’s Kingdom of Rust album: Danton
Supple, who also had worked on his
favorite Coldplay albums, Rush of Blood
to the Head and X and Y. He sent an email

STRAIGHT FROM THE CUBAN
LEAGUES

Dawns, David Boone’s new music project, came out of a recording session in London last fall.

with music to Supple’s management company, 140dB. It was the only time he’d
sent his music out blindly like that.
A few weeks later, he got back a note
asking him to fly to London to record
with Supple. That same week, he found
out he was going to be a father.

“I DON’T HEAR DAVID BOONE”
It took a year to make it happen, but
in September 2011, David and
Stephanie got on a plane to London
with their newborn son, Meyers, and an
intern, Peter Horton, a graduate of the
University of Montana entertainment
management program who was working
with Boone to get experience developing an artist.
David worked in the studio with
Supple all day, every day, using the
Bozeman demos as a foundation. They
recorded with string arranger Audrey
Riley, who’d also collaborated on albums
with The Smiths, The Smashing
Pumpkins and The Cure.
Supple immediately latched onto
Boone’s music because of the way it captures an authentic Americana sound
while still being uniquely Boone’s, he
says. “You can’t help but be drawn to
what he’s saying. All the songs make epic
emotional and dynamic journeys, even in
demo form, taking you seamlessly from
these intimate intros to the almost
orchestral, anthemic finishes.”
The London studio experience had
no glitches, no drama. It was a foreign,
refreshing feeling.
“It was fun, and in a way it was kind
of sad,” says Stephanie, “just because I
wish we could do that with his music all
the time. That’s the environment he
thrives in. We felt at home, even in this
studio where big groups like the
Counting Crows and The Killers had
recorded.”

When the EP was finished, the
Boones, Supple and the 140dB management group sat in the studio and listened
to what they’d created. It was a different
sound than what Boone had ever made
before. To Boone, it felt like an arrival.
He was surprised when one of the
managers spoke up and suggested that
he abandon his name for something else,
saying, “To be honest with you, I don’t
hear ‘David Boone.’ I don’t hear singersongwriter. I don’t hear acoustic guitar

and folk music … I hear a soundscape, a
larger vision.”
Boone didn’t understand what that
would mean for his identity. But, he
says, as he thought about it, it began to
make sense.“There was something really
invigorating about the idea. I’ll always
be David Boone and I’ll always be able
to do a David Boone album, but this is a
turning point. It’s removing certain
attachments and letting the music just
speak.”

Most of the songs on Boone’s forthcoming EP have been tuned down a
step—a choice he made when he wrote
one of the early songs, “Evidence and
Answers,” on a broken, three-stringed
guitar at 3 a.m. The result is the kind of
dark strum and rolling drumbeat you
hear with late Johnny Cash tunes, mixed
with the bright, resounding pop that
makes U2’s “Beautiful Day” feel so
expansive. The lyrics reflect that, too:
concrete detail, the kind that flooded
Hard Enough to Bend, is tempered by
broad strokes of abstraction. The “you”
and “me” and “we” is no longer rooted in
Dogtown. It’s everyone and everywhere.
It’s also much more commercial than
Hard Enough to Bend ever was. Yet it’s
still Boone, maybe because the songs still
come from the same place, written at
ungodly night hours or in moments of
uncorked emotion. When he cut the
Bozeman demos, he planned on making
an album called Here’s to Losing Control.
That was when it was a David Boone
project. After the London recording, he’s
calling it All of a Sudden.
Boone has taken the advice of the
London crew and discarded his name. He
replaced it with the more abstract
“Dawns” as a way to evoke a new beginning and to encompass the shifting cast
of other musicians he’s playing with, as
well as the music videos and the people
who help him make them.
He’s completed three videos from
the EP songs. The most recent, for “Better
to Love Than,” is the most stylized so far.

On stage, Boone exudes charisma, intensity, and the same refreshing lack of ego that marks artists such as Bruce
Springsteen.

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It depicts a father and son whose intense
relationship, from kitchen arguments to
deathbed redemption, is interspersed
with childhood flashbacks in gauzy light.
It premiers this week at the Crystal
Theatre during First Friday, where Boone
will also re-screen the first two videos,
“Evidence and Answers” and “Tail Lights.”
The videos have all been directed and
shot by Missoula filmmakers Patrick Cook,
Brandon Woodard and Mat Miller. In June,
Boone and the crew will travel to the Sun
Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert, in
Utah, to film the EP’s final video, for the
song “Beam of Light.” On the summer solstice, the concrete tunnels, built by artist
Nancy Holt, frame the sunset and sunrise.
The summer solstice is also the day the
Dawns EP will be released.
A few weeks ago, Boone called senior Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt, the
third time he’d tried to contact Hiatt to

get the magazine to take a look at the
Dawns music videos. Boone knew it was
a longshot; like the rest of the music
industry, mainstream music media typically doesn’t take the time to filter
through unknown artists for the next
new thing.
“I just wanted him to take a look,
that’s all,” says Boone. “But he said to
me, ‘I’ve gotta be honest with you. You’re
kind of trying to go straight to the World
Series here.’”
Boone laughs. “In my head—and I
wish I would have said it—I was thinking,
‘Well, actually, I’ve been in the Cuba
baseball league for the last 16 years.”

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
The house Boone built sits in a cozy
neighborhood near downtown Missoula.
It has a Spanish villa-feel to it, with insides

full of polished barn wood, curtains of
coffee-bean burlap and a rooftop deck
that overlooks a quiet street. You might
hear Springsteen’s Nebraska filtering
from the kitchen boombox, if Boone isn’t
playing guitar—which is rare. On one
recent day, as he strums his acoustic,
Stephanie smiles warmly, holding Meyers,
who is entranced, bobbing to the music,
staring wide-eyed at his dad. His life so far
is wrapped in his father’s music.
One recent night, when David was
on child duty, Meyers started crying. It
was Stephanie who had to comfort him.
“I was thinking of the crushing
weight of obligation,” David says with
mock solemnity. “It was one of those
things where everything was getting way
louder and the baby yelling is getting
louder and your voice is getting louder
and the whole world is getting louder.”
Through the screaming, Stephanie
hummed Meyers a made-up lullaby and
David picked up his guitar and played along
with her tune, writing the song to her:
“I see lightning, we’re in trouble,
can’t you see, it’s just me. Let’s stop fighting over rubble of a city we don’t need.
Climb the mountain to the lighthouse,
send a message through the skies. When
all of this sorrow is over, that’s when all of
the trumpets, and all of the lions, all the
saints, all the sirens, will be making lots of
noise, will awaken from their silence.
And, Oh! Oh! I will be by your side!”
That song is destined for the second
Dawns album, which David has nearly
finished writing.
A week after first talking with him,
Boone tells me he was thinking about
contrasts and the notion that you need
dark to have light or suffering to have art.

He says he thought about how, if you
took away the dark sky, the stars wouldn’t disappear. They’d just shine infinitely.
And so, he says, he doesn’t believe that
Orson Welles quote anymore.
“I was thinking of it in terms of when
I was having my session in London. There
were no hiccups; it was completely productive. I think it’s a lie that when you
have craziness that you’re more creative.
Yeah, you’re productive and you feel like
your mind is working on a different level
than it’s typically working at, but I don’t
think you’re a master of your craft if you
can’t create at your most masterful level,
when you’re totally at the helm.”
Meanwhile, he keeps writing. He has
yet another project that he’s written
songs for, about history and how people
forget and remember. That material has
been growing for four years now, he says,
waiting its turn. “I will be an old, old
man,” he says, laughing.
He still has nightmares almost every
night, he says, in which he accidentally
builds his and Stephanie’s villa on the
land he grew up on in Seeley. But now
he also has dreams that are becoming
realities.
He’s hoping to record with Supple
again this fall, first in Montana, then in
London, to finish the full-length album
they began. After London, Boone will fly
to New York to play as a featured artist at
the CMJ Music Festival.
Seattle-based radio promoter Kevin
Sutter, who spearheaded campaigns for
the debut albums of Nora Jones, Jack
Johnson, Pearl Jam and David Gray, is
working to get Boone in regional radio
markets. Jesse Barnett, also a renowned
radio promoter, is on board to take him
national. Brooklyn publicist Jeff Kilgour
of Tijuana Gift Shop is taking the reins on
television, print and online promotion.
In an industry where no one’s keen
on risk, all this PR will cost Boone
money—he jokes that he’s looking at kidney market options—but he and
Stephanie have decided they’re not
throwing in the towel just yet.
“We’re at this place in life where we
can keep going and keep doing this
because we believe in this wholeheartedly,” Stephanie says. “But it’s so hard
when you’ve never felt the relief. I feel
like Dave and I have been in this boxing
round together for seven years and it’s
like, will you either beat us up or can we
just win?”
For First Friday, David Boone hosts
the “Better to Love Than” video premier, which includes screenings of his
other videos “Evidence and Answers”
and “Tail Lights,” Friday, May 4, at the
Crystal Theatre. Come for food and
drinks at 5 p.m., with the screening at
5:30 p.m. Or, come by at 7 p.m. for food
and drinks and catch the screening at
7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Go to
kickstarter.com/profile/dawnsiscoming
to check out and support the project.

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why it’s your time. We’re begging you to tell us which burger is the hands-down juiciest in Missoula,
where the best place is to buy shoes and which bar has the best pour.

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phone number in the spaces provided. Ballots missing any of this information, or ballots with fewer than 40 categories filled in, will be mocked, ridiculed and not counted. Same goes for photocopied ballots and ballots with
unclear markings.
Hard-copy ballots may be mailed or hand-delivered to the Indy office at 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT
59801, or dropped at any of the ballot locations listed below. Ballots must be received by no later than 5 p.m. on
Wednesday, May 9.
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Is canola oil overrated?
FLASHINTHEPAN
To look at many cookbooks, you’d think olive oil
and canola oil were identical twins separated at
birth. Countless recipes call for “extra virgin olive oil
or canola oil,” as if the two are interchangeable.
This implied equivalence is odd. Extra virgin olive
oil is cold-pressed from a fruit that has been cultivated for more than 7,000 years, with no refining beyond
filtration. Canola oil is refined with heat, pressure, solvents and bleach, and comes from the seed of a plant
that’s younger than the Rolling Stones.
The canola plant was conceived when demand for
rapeseed oil plummeted in the late 1940s, and the
Canadian rapeseed industry began seeking and creating new markets for its product. Since the Industrial
Revolution, rapeseed oil has been an important component of lubricants for ships and steam engines, because
unlike most oils it sticks to wet metal. During World War
II the U.S. built a lot of ships, and so needed lots of
rapeseed oil, but couldn’t get it from traditional suppliers in Europe and Asia. The Canadian rapeseed industry, which had been relatively small, exploded to fill the
gap, and played an important role in the Allied naval
effort, becoming rich and powerful in the process.
But rapeseed oil demand waned when the war
ended, and thus began an intensive program to
breed a rapeseed edible to humans. The Holy Grail
was a strain with dramatically lower levels of erucic
acid and glucosinolates, which are the main culprits
behind rapeseed oil’s foul flavor and, according to
some research, toxic effects.
The industry opted against calling its new product “rape oil,” so in 1978 the new plant was christened canola, for “CANadian Oil Low Acid.” The
“Low Acid” refers to erucic acid.
Canola is processed with heat, pressure and,
often, solvents like hexane. Even in cold-pressed
“organic“ canola, the refining steps include bleaching, deodorization and the removal of various
gummy, oozy byproducts. In fact, many of these
steps are similar to practices that people are worked
up about over pink slime, including heated centrifugation and treatment with noxious chemicals.
The food and agriculture industries love canola
because it grows well, yields more oil per acre than
any other oilseed and there are so many ways to eat
it. That bottle on your kitchen counter is only the
beginning.

Canola oil is used in most processed salad dress- replacement of butter with “healthy fats such as olive
ings, often after being treated with anti-foaming agents. oil and canola oil.” And thus, the long-lost fatty twins
Canola oil is frequently hydrogenated for use in short- are reunited again—in your heart-healthy lasagna.
But there’s nothing close to a scientific consenenings, fry oil mixes and many processed foods. Canola
oil hydrogenates much more readily than corn or soy sus about the supposed superiority of unsaturated
oil—a process that turns unsaturated fats into saturated fats with regard to obesity and heart disease. Many
fats and creates trans-fats along the way. Canola hydro- parts of these arguments are currently being debated.
Is the debate influenced by canola’s tremendous
genates so eagerly, in fact, that it happens inadvertently
profitability? Worldwide produring the oil’s steam-injection
duction is hitting record highs
deodorization process. Because
almost every year. And in just a
of this unintended hydrogenafew short decades of life,
tion, any refined canola oil is
canola oil has leapfrogged in
going to be partially hydropopularity over other unsatugenated. And if it’s partially
rated oils like safflower—which
hydrogenated, it’s going to conis lower in saturated fats than
tain trans-fats. A study published
canola oil—and grapeseed,
in the Journal of Food Lipids
which, for what its worth, is
shows that the trans-fat content
from the Mediterranean. To
of commercial, non-hydrogenatwhat degree this surging poped canola oil can be as high as
ularity is due to the zealous
4.6 percent. Nonetheless, many
pursuit of unsaturated omegaformulations of canola oil are
3 fats or to the marketing
billed as having no trans or pargenius of the rape oil salesmen
tially hydrogenated fats, because
is a question for the cookbook
they weren’t present prior to the
authors that began recomrefining process.
Photo courtesy of the Canola Oil Council of Canada
mending the oil in droves in
Another selling point for
canola oil is that it can stand high heat without burning the 1980s. One such messenger, Andrew Weil, has
and is thus well suited for deep-frying. Because of this, recently disavowed canola, calling it a “distant runner
canola is often considered a preferred alternative to olive up to olive oil.” We’ll see if other cookbook writers
oil for very hot cooking. But the oil’s large percentage of like Mark Bittman and Jamie Oliver follow suit.
Olive oil has flavor; canola is tasteless. Olive oil
polyunsaturated fats will oxidize in high heat, turning
them rancid. Meanwhile, the widely followed prohibi- is intact, alive with enzymes and other biomolecules,
tion against frying with olive oil is misplaced. Extra virgin while canola is processed, filtered and separated
olive oil has been deep-frying food in Mediterranean into a sliver of its former self. Olive oil is the ancient
diets for centuries. Interestingly, the Canadian Canola foundation of the Mediterranean diet; canola oil is a
Council lists the smoke point for extra virgin olive oil at recent experiment, a Hail Mary effort to save an
331 degrees, despite the fact that most sources pin the industry.
But for all of its wonderful qualities, one thing
smoke point of good quality extra virgin olive oil above
extra virgin olive oil isn’t is cheap. And canola oil,
400 degrees, which will deep-fry anything.
One thing that’s certain is that canola oil is low while perhaps not as mind-boggingly awesome as
in saturated fat. And according to the medical com- some would have us believe, probably isn’t that bad
munity’s party line, that’s a good thing because satu- for you—except for those trans-fats created in the
deodorization process. But other than the price difrated fats cause obesity and heart disease.
The Mayo Clinic often invokes the Mediterranean ference, there isn’t any reason to choose canola oil
diet on its website, recommending “Mediterranean- over olive oil. It’s a truly inferior product, despite
style cooking” for “heart-healthy eating” and the what so many recipes imply.

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tion of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and
espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wifi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call
ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week.
Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$

Alcan Bar and Grill
16780 Beckwith St.
Frenchtown • 626-9930
Tantalize your taste buds with Angus
beef burgers, chicken strips, shrimp, and biscuits and gravy
from Alcan Bar & Grill. With more than 20 years of experience
and 10 years in the business, we have been offering fresh
meals and beverages at the area's most competitive prices.
Our friendly professionals offer personalized service and make
sure you leave our restaurant as one of our friends. We offer
have a variety of specials for ladies night and sports events featuring drink specials and free food. Contact us today and enjoy
our incredible menu selection. 9 am – 2 am Mon-Sun.

Bernice’s Bakery
190 South 3rd West • 728-1358
When the sun shines, the trail along the Clark
Fork beckons me for a stroll. As I pass Boone
& Crockett I realize one quick side step up the
hillside and I can stop at Bernice’s. Mmmm. Iced Coffee to
help me kick into the last leg of my cruise and a chocolate chip
cookie. Or an herb cream cheese hard roll and a loaf of
Sourdough for tomorrows lunch. Tradition. While you kick into
April remember Bernice’s can accent your spring adventure
any time, any day. Open 6a – 8p seven days a week.

the
The Bridge Pizza
Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins
542-0002
A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip.
Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients.
Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of
regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, &
delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$
Butterfly Herbs
232 N. Higgins
728-8780
Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas.
Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas
(Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries
& gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and
coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown,
we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7
Days. $
Claim Jumper
3021 Brooks • 728-0074
Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a
week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early
Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature
CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite
Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and
7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm SunWed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our
Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$
Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches
214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414
Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for
diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the
freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power
lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater
Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from
gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items.
eMpanadas
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Pedaling Missoula's Empanadas, hot &
fresh, to the Clark Fork River Farmers Market
since 2005! Your favorites are back this
Saturday under the Higgins St. Bridge-salchicha, humita, carne
de buffalo, lamb and more! Featuring the return of spicy buffalo & spicy chicken. NEW D.I.Y. empanadas...take home some
dough & make your own.

HAPPIESTHOUR
Craft Brew Week
We’re salivating at the
thought of celebrating as
many of Missoula’s homegrown brews as our little
liver will allow during the
Garden City’s first ever Craft
Brew Week, a five-day celebration of all things ale. The
week kicked off May 1 and
culminates in a beersoaked eight-hour party: the
Garden City BrewFest in
Caras Park, Saturday, May 5.
What you’re drinking: For starters, Tamarack
Brewing Co.’s Garden City
Golden Ale. The brewery
rolled it out May 1 in honor
of Craft Brew Week. It’s a
light-bodied Belgian-style
brew with rich malt and subtle spice flavors and
a fruity aroma. In honor of Craft Beer Week,
many local watering holes are offering specials
throughout the week.
What you’re doing: On Friday, May 4, taking part in Bike to Missoula Brew. Meet
Missoula’s Bike Walk Bus Alliance at the south
end of the pedestrian bridge near Jacob’s

Island at 4:30 p.m. and
cruise en masse along the
Riverfront and Milwaukee
Trails to Bayern Brewery.
After filling up at
Bayern, we’re going to see
The Love of Beer, a film
about female brewmasters
in Bend, Ore. The Wilma
screens the documentary
Friday, May 4, at 8 p.m. The
Wilma, to our perennial
delight, also serves local
microbrews.
There is no slacking
during Craft Beer Week.
(You’ve got to pace yourself.) On Friday night, we’re
going on the Garden City
Photo by Alex Sakariassen Brewery Bus Tour. During
the tour, a sober bus driver
will haul beer connoisseurs to Bayern, Draught
Works and the Kettlehouse. The tour costs $30
and comes with a light dinner to soak up the
booze. Reserve a seat in advance via email:
gardencitybrewerytour@gmail.com
For a comprehensive list of Craft Brew
Week events, check out: http://missoulabeerweek.com/schedule.
—Jessica Mayrer

Wordens. Serving progressive American food consisting of
fresh house-made pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and
fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10
~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours:
Tues.- Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm.
Authentic Thai Restaurant
221 W. Broadway
543-9966
sawaddeedowntown.com
Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and
friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai
flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer
and wine! $-$$
Sean Kelly’s Empire Grill
130 W. Pine St.
542-1471
Located in the heart of downtown. Open for
lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday &
Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare.
Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$
Silvertip Casino
680 SW Higgins
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The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best
live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s
and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at
$2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$
NOT JUST SUSHI
We have quick and delicious lunch
specials 6 days a week starting at $7,
and are open for dinner 7 nights a
week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken
Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all
culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every
Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly.
549-7979. $$-$$$
Taco Del Sol
422 N. Higgins
327-8929
Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.
We'll do our best to treat you right!
Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 Sun 12-9.
Taco Sano
115 1/2 S. 4th Street West
Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip
541-7570 • tacosano.net
Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos
served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up
your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and
sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER.
Tamarack Brewing Company
231 W. Front Street
830-3113
facebook.com/tamarackmissoula
Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first
Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking
Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons
can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on
both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread
wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days
Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat
Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating
seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter,
Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8
growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night
every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at
The ‘Rack! $-$$
Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery
4175 Rattlesnake Drive
549-8703
www.tenspoon.com
Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added
sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9
pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard,
or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold
by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to
friends and relatives. $$
Westside Lanes
1615 Wyoming
721-5263
Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and
specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with
zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good
fun. $-$$
YoWaffle Yogurt
216 W. Main St. • 543-6072
(Between Thai Spicy and The Shack)
www.yowaffle.com
YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle
eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt,
over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot
and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor
seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs
11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12
AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts
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Arts & Entertainment listings
May 3 – May 10, 2012

8

days a week

THURSDAY
May

03

Drop the controller and check out this
month’s theme at the Montana Natural
History Center’s miniNaturalists Pre-K
Program. This month’s theme is Osprey.
Pliny the Elder would approve. 120 Hickory
St. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. montananaturalist.org.

nightlife
Tom Catmull does the work of six men
(one has a limp, though) at Draught Works
Brewery. 915 Toole. 5–8 PM. Free.
You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone
Climbing Center’s Ladies Night. 935
Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.
Get your locution on and become fixated
oratorically at the weekly meeting of the
Treasure State Toastmasters. Community
Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft.
Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.
Louie Bond and the Texas Playgirl do
some country swangin’, people. Bitter Root
Brewery, Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.
Before you get all tuned up, Mr. Pastorious,
you should know that the Montana Native
Plant Society’s event Mt. Sentinel
Budburst has nothing to do with anything
but discovering native plants. Meet on the
south side of campus, at the corner of
Beckwith and Madeline, at the picnic table
east of the Forest Service lab. 6:30 PM. Free.
Chill out and listen, spazzoid. Tahjbo is
reading poetry, and the Screen Door Porch
is playing some of the Americana. The Top
Hat. 9 PM. Free.
The Oscar-nominated Promises is the final
installment of the Peace and Justice Film
Series. It follows the lives of Israeli and
Palestinian children who dared cross the

Black to black to black. Sheryl Hester’s “Men in Black” is part of the MAM’s Triennial exhibition, which opens with a reception Fri., May 4, from 5 to 8 PM. The exhibition is a survey
of contemporary work and features 39 artists. 335 N. Pattee. Free.

border to meet one another. Gallagher
Business Bldg., Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free.
Jump into the fire when Burn Halo,
Underride, High Voltage and Walking
Corpse Syndrome bust a cap in your
stahlhelm at the Dark Horse. 1805 Regent.
7 PM. $5.
Satire and song and the Roaring Twenties?
Get on the trolly, bub, it must be Chicago,
as performed by the UM School of Theatre
and Dance. UM’s PARTV Center. 7:30 PM.
$20/ $16 seniors and students/$10 kids 12
and under. umtheatredance.org.

Oh snap, it’s the Sharks and the Jets doing
their thing in the Missoula Community
Theatre production of Westside Story.
MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N.
Adams. 8 PM. $15-$21.
For the love of Pete’s dragon, Missoula is
mos def turning out for The Love of Beer,
a doc about the PNW craft beer industry and
end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 4, to
calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail
mail the stuff to The Calemander c/o the
Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or
fax your way to 543-4367.

S

Times Run
5/4- 5/10

Cinemas, Live Music
& Theater

Don’t forget to vote for
Blue Mountain Clinic, Dr. Ravitz
and Off the Rack in the
Best of Missoula poll!

the ladies who make all those drinkable
blessings. Wilma Theatre. This event is part
of Missoula Craft Beer Week (isn’t that every
week?). 8 PM. $8. missoulabeerweek.com.

Gallery, 223 W. Railroad, by way of peepholes and video art and other anxiety-inducing mediums. From 5 to 9 PM, with refreshments provided. Free. (See Art.)

Get both of the things you need at Blues &
Bread at Bernice’s Bakery, with Mudslide
Charley. 190 S. 3rd W. 8 PM. Free.

Author and adventurist Alan Kesselheim
took his kids on a lot of amazing river trips,
and he chronicles how the skills learned on
those trips shaped their lives. He reads from
his book Let Them Paddle at Fact & Fiction
at 5 PM. Free.

Indulge in topsy-turvy First Friday works for
the exhibit Circuit Circus with “acts” such
as iChing: A Bit of Mystery, Noveau Cirque
des Images Projector Show, Augmented
Mirrors, Live in 3D and Twitter-Active. At the
same time, Family Friendly Friday with
Kung Fu Kongress ought to make you
groove. 5–8 PM. Free. (See Spotlight.)
Local artists and the local childrens silently
auction off their works at the Second

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at
the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love
and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208
Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9
PM–midnight.

Andrew E. Nixon is Going Coastal in his
new exhibit that features the ever-changing
sea. Rocky Mountain School of Photography,
216 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.

Do the housework and you may just get all
arty. At least laurie e. mitchell has (she
insists on lowercase for her name, btw). You
can see her work made up of re-purposed
messes and piles in Spring Cleaning, an
exhibit at The Green Light. 301 N. Higgins.
5–8 PM. Free.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of
country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post,
103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and
every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

04

For builders interested in strutting their stuff
for a good cause, get onboard (ha!) and
sign-up for the 10th Annual Boys and
Girls Club Playhouse and Pet
Palace Auction Fundraiser. Build something rad. Show it off at Southgate Mall.
Auction it off in June. Contact Anne for
specifics at 239-6505.
Buh-cock! Grizzly Hackle Fly Hosts the
Birdhouse Benefit, with birdhouses
designed by local artists, politicians and
celebs, including Bobby Hauck (jokes) and
Mr. Mayor John Engen (for reals). The proceeds benefit the Clark Fork Watershed
Program and birds everywhere. 215 W.
Front. 5-8 PM. Free.
When I was a kid we played GI Joes™. Now
we have a Beginning Fencing Class for
kids 6-8. Pretty sweet. 1200 Shakespeare
Ste. A. $45. missoulayouthfencing.com.
Missoula Adult Services hosts a First Friday
event called Celebration of Recovery, with
original artwork by locals, featuring drawings,
sculpture and all the rest. 1315 Wyoming.
4–7 PM. Free.

Put on your blinders, there’s some new
lasers in town and DJs Lrock and Boy
Burning Bridge are gonna pop it off at
Pulse with a night of digital excess. 835 E.
Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

FRIDAY

The Primrose Montesorri School’s Art
Show at the Mercantile Deli follows the
tracks of many creatures big and small and
also features the music of The Lady Birds.
119 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.

Put on your copy of “Avian Audio” and head
over to the The Artists’ Shop for Birdfest
2012, which features gads of artists who
have created gobs of bird-themed works.
304 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.
Carol Lynn Lapotka gets all your
grandma’s goodies from the thrift store and
makes new, rad stuff with them things.
Check it out at Upcycled, 517 S. Higgins.
5–8 PM. Free.
Hellgate High Seniors do work and show you
oldsters how it’s done at their annual
Senior Artists Show. 2nd floor, by the
place you first saw that gal rub the back of
her ankle with the toe of her shoe.
5–7 PM. Free.
Hamilton artist Muriel Parker breaks out
the watercolors for her First Friday showing at
The Frame Shop & Gallery in Hamilton. 325
Main. 5–7:30 PM. Free.
Learn the secrets of journal construction at
Joan Ragan Kallay’s exhibit Worthy of
a Note: Handsomely Constructed
Journals. Kallay uses Japanese stab bookbinding techniques. Noteworthy Paper &
Press, 101 S. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.
Computer Central hosts Thomas Mckay’s
exhibit Abstract Pointillism. Dot, dot, dot,
dot, dot. 136 E. Broadway. 5–7:30 PM. Free.
See a group show of nature photos this
First Friday at the Montana Natural History
Center. 120 Hickory. 5-8 PM. Free.

Missoula Independent Page 24 May 3 – May 10, 2012

Annual Spirit of Play Art Show over at
the Downtown Dance Collective. Get a gift
for mom while you’re down there. 121 W.
Main. 5–8 PM. Free.
Opposites, people. David Mensing shows
new paintings in an exhibition called A
Common Majesty at The Dana Gallery.
246 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.
Something wicked this way comes when
sculptor Cait Finley shows off her exotic
wares at Betty’s Divine, with a performance
by Baby and Bukowski at 6 PM. 521 S.
Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.
“Would somebody please stop the insanity?!” Susan Powter said to me on a plane
one day. Well this would get her brows in a
crux: Alligators and Gems, an art show
proffering weirdness and beauty and
things that “sparkle and bite,” with work
by
Courtney
Blazon,
Candice
Mancini, Jessie Baldwin and Dustin
Hoon. Central Bar and Grill, 143 W.
Broadway. 5–8 PM. Free.

The MAM hosts the Montana Triennial:
2012, a survey exhibition with works galore
by a gang of talented folks, a gallery talk by
juror Keith Wells at 7 PM and tunes
by Flannel Republic. 335 N. Pattee. 5–8
PM. Free.
Shannon Holmes creates jewelry from
resin (not that kind of resin, Chachi) and
makes the world a more golden place. The
Tides Gallery inside Bathing Beauties Beads,
501 S. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.
Check out Landlocked, a printmaker’s exhibition and portfolio exchange brought to you
by the ZACC, with music by 64 Tuna and
The Best Westerns. Zoo City Apparel, 139
E. Main. 5–8 PM. Free.
Hello, it’s El 3-Oh! Ten Spoon Vineyard and
Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Free.
Female forms and Asian influence are all
over the work Patricia Forberg in her
exhibit Plum Blossoms and Wabi Sabi at
Montana Art and Framing. 709 Ronan. 5–9
PM. Free.

The UM School of Art is dropping the works
of Jack Metcalf and his Pupils into the
Rock Bottom Gallery (below The Top Hat)
for a big old exhibition of printmaking kingand queen-ery. 5–9 PM. Free.
On Deck 7 is a fundraising auction for the
Montana Skate Park Association and is
chock-full of rad artists and their super-rad
works. Even Jeff Ament is in on the action,
y’all. The Brink Gallery, 11 W. Front. 5–10
PM. Free. (See Scope.)
Well ain’t this grand?! Hop aboard and take
the Garden City Brewery Bus Tour, which
hits up Draught Works, Bayern and the
Kettlehouse. Light dinner, a pint at each
brewery and a ride home are included in the
cost. Meet the future missus at Caras Park at
5:15 PM sharp. $30. RSVP at gardencitybrewerytour.com. (See Happiest Hour.)
Watch the man work and see if he makes a
picture of a sad clown when Live Painting
with Jason Bohman takes place at
Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 5:30
PM. Free. (See Scope.)
Join the Jeanette Rankin Peace Center at
Zootown Brew and see the submissions for
the Search for Peace Art Project. Music
by Lewis and Clark Peace Choir and The
Montana Women’s Chorus of Missoula. 121
W. Broadway. 5:30–7:30 PM. Free.
Praise be to the people keeping history
intact and praise be given to them at the
Missoula
Historic
Preservation

Commission Awards Ceremony at the
Florence Hotel in the Governor’s Room.
5:30–8 PM.
Eva Champagne shows off her wicked
good works of clay during her exhibition
Littoral Drift at the Clay Studio. 1106
Hawthorne. 5:30–9 PM. Free. (See Scope.)
Active outdoor lovers are invited to the
Mountain Sports Club’s (formerly the
Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly
meeting to talk about being awesome, past
glories and upcoming activities. Swan River
Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.
Two important facts. One, The Steel Toe
Flos are performing their kind of Americana
at Sotto Voce Boutique this First Friday. Two,
I know one of them! 121 S. Higgins. 6–8
PM. Free.
Michael Rees shares “some photography,
a bit of Graphite, a little watercolor and a
splinter of wood” at the River’s Mist Gallery
in Stevi. Up-and-comer EJ Hanson joins
him. 317 Main. 6–9 PM. Free.
Burlesco is joined by Sean Gaskell, who
plays the West African kora, and Flashback.
7 PM. Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman. $3.
¡Que bueno!, esta Cuatro De Mayhem at
the Glacier Ice Rink and that means the
Brawlin’ Mollies are taking on Couer
D’Alene’s Snake Pit Hissfits. Don’t you
wish this were on ice, with blades?
6 PM. $15/$10 general, kids 10 and
under free.

Find us in local produce departments and at Farmers
Markets in Missoula and Hamilton,
starting Saturday May 5th.
CSA shares available at Garden City Harvest and
Western Montana Growers Co-op

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The Called To Love Tour features
music by Downhere, Aaron
Shust and Jason Gray. 7 PM.
Wilma Theatre. $5. Cruise to
Garden of Read’n for tix.

Blue and The Vagus Nerve are
back at the Dark Horse for your
dancin’ and drinkin’ pleasure.
Show them some love, k? 1805
Regent. 9 PM. Free.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing
Gym’s Intro. to Bouldering
course, which introduces basic
techniques, safety stuff, ethics and
more. Class includes 1.5 hours of
instruction and two weeks of
unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.
7–8:30 PM. $40.

Make sweet love to the dance floor
when Sho Down performs country tunes for you and the guy who
works at Best Buy. Sunrise Saloon,
100 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

David Cobb of the national Move
to Amend coalition is the guest of
the Missoula Moves to Amend
organization and he is here to talk
about why Citizens United needs
to go away forever. UM Clapp Bldg.
Rm. 131. 7 PM. Free.

Stay out the trees if you’re nummy
num-num pears when The Fruit
Bats come to town for a night of
indie-folk rockin’ and fruit
chompin’, with Pure Bathing
Culture and Mountain
Breathers. The Top Hat. 10 PM.
$14/$12 adv.

The Holistic Weight Loss
Support Group is facilitated by
Tereece Panique and takes place
at the Unity Church of Missoula
at 7:30 PM. 546 South. $2 suggested donation. Call 493-1210 for
more info.
Satire and song and the Roaring
Twenties? Get on the trolly, bub, it
must be Chicago, as performed
by the UM School of Theatre and
Dance. UM’s PARTV Center. 7:30
PM. $20/ $16 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under.
umtheatredance.org.
Oh snap, it’s the Sharks and the
Jets doing their thing in the
Missoula Community Theatre
production of Westside Story.
MCT Center for the Performing
Arts, 200 N. Adams. 8 PM.
$15-$21.
Carbo load on positivity with
Chereal when they perform at the
Eagles Lodge. 2430 South Ave. 8
PM-1 AM. Free.
Slap on them robot walkers and
get funked up on the funky-folk of
the Franklin Street Free For All.
Symes Hot Springs Hotel. 8–10
PM. Pass the hat.
Dance with your English Lit prof.
with little or no shame when ‘60s
soul-music makers Zeppo, MT
play the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.
Boo-hoo, ol’ Bridgebuilder is
playing their last local show EVER!,
with Shramarama and Satans’s
Slave. Come sing along one last
time. VFW, 245 W. Main. 9 PM. $3.
Peanut Butter Wolf ain’t no
chocolate-eatin’ puppy, but he’s
bringing his sweet VJ/DJ mixing
and trip-fantastic jams to the
Palace, with locals sAuce,
Illegitimate Children, Shaymulssly Elliterate and M-AD.
$12/$10 adv. at Ear Candy and
Rockin Rudy’s, with a $5 surcharge
for you know who.

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He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just
can’t stop the dance tracks once
they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s.
Free. Call 728-8799.

Help me Obe Won, the I’ll House
You special edition, May the
Fourth Be With You: 2nd Annual
Death Star Disco with DJs Kris
Moon, Commodore 69 Daniel
Coda and Milkcrate Mechanic,
takes place at the Palace. 9 PM.
Free.

SATURDAY
May

05

Help support the 1846 Hudson’s
Bay Trading Post during the
Fort Connah Open House
Rendezvous, which encourages
old-timey dress, camping and black
powder action. Located 6 miles
north of St. Ignatius at mile post
39. Call Scott at 381-0759 for
more info.
Five Valleys Audubon would like
you to greet the spring arrivals during their all-day foray to Brown’s
Lake. Waterfowl, cranes and
curlews are scheduled for arrival.
Meet at the UM Field House parking lot at 8 AM. For more info., call
549-5632.
Missoula, load up your canvas
bags, get on your bikes and go aglancin’ at the people. The Clark
Fork Market is open for business,
with produce, music, edibles and
more. Under the Higgins Ave.
bridge. 8 AM–1 PM.
If you have compulsive-eating
problems, seek help and support
with others during a meeting of
Overeaters Anonymous, which
meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM
in Room 3 in the basement of First
United Methodist Church, 300 E.
Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.
Get a look at some good woodcarvings at the Western Montana
Woodcarvers’ Show. Western

Montana Fairgrounds, Home Arts
Bldg. 9 AM–5 PM. $3.
Learn how and why vainglorious
explorers and good eggs put
names to places in the Bitterroot
Valley at the Daly Mansion lecture
What’s in a Name?, with Bruce
Gould. 251 Eastside Hwy. 10 AM.
Free.
The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.
Step one: Admit you have a problem (usually it’s a propensity for
exaggeration and/or filling out
dream journals). Step two: Attend
Writers Anonymous, an adult
writing workshop in the Missoula
Public Library boardroom. 10
AM–Noon. Free.
The Heirloom Winter Market still
has plenty of local num-nums for
you and yours, including farm-fresh
eggs, butter, sausage, lavender,
honey and more, more, more!
Ceretana Gallery and Studios, 801
Sherwood. 10 AM–1 PM.
Learn to hunt like a truffle pig at
the
Nine-Mile
Spring
Mushroom Workshop led by
Garden City Fungi. Nine-Mile
Community Center. 10 AM–2 PM.
Call 626-5757 for more info.
The Rattlesnake Creek Watershed
Group is holding the event
Community Stewardship in Our
Own Backyard, which teaches
people the differences between
intact and degraded habitat and
how to improve things in general
with a bit of planting action.
Greenough Park Pavilion, 1629
Monroe. 10 AM–3 PM.
The Last Best Print Fest takes
place all day at Zoo City Apparel as
part of Cinco De Mega and shows
you how to do screen and relief
printing with help from ZCA and
the ZACC crew. Bring the kids!
Onward to Awesometown! Bring
a T-shirt and they’ll put something
rad on it. 139 E. Main. 11 AM–
5 PM.
The guild that sews together, stays
together, so join Selvedge Studio at
its monthly Modern Quilt Guild
for beginners and pros alike. 509
S. Higgins Ave. 12–5 PM. $20 (first
few sign-ups are free).
Join artists featured in the
Montana Triennial: 2012 for a
panel siscussion on the aesthetics
of the exhibition. MAM, 335 N.
Pattee. 1 PM. Free.
Become the local expert on all
things Milltown at the Milltown
State Park Bluff Tour. Catch the
ASUM bus at the E. Broadway Park

and Ride at 1 PM or at the ShaRon Fishing Access at 1:15 PM.
Free.
MCAT presents two film festivals at
the Missoula Public Library. First,
the 10th Annual High School
Film Festival at 1:30 PM. Second,
entrants of the Do It in 72
Contest are screened at 3:30 PM.
Filmmakers can win money and
someone is bound to cry. Free.
Satire and song and the Roaring
Twenties? Get on the trolly, bub, it
must be Chicago, as performed
by the UM School of Theatre and
Dance. UM PARTV Center. 2 PM.
$20/ $16 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under.
umtheatredance.org.
Oh snap, it’s the Sharks and the Jets
doing their thing in the Missoula
Community Theatre production of
Westside Story. MCT Center for
the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams.
2 PM. $15-$21.
Put down your one-hitter and take
up the cause at the 14th Annual
Global Cannabis March, which
begins at Jacob’s Island and makes
its way to the Missoula County
Courthouse. 4 PM.

nightlife
It’s looking like an American Heavy
Metal Weekend when Rites of

Photo courtesy of David Stubbs

Three out of fedora ain’t bad. Screen Door Porch plays some friendly ol’ Americana at The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., on Thu., May 3, at 10 PM. Free.

Spring: A Gastropunk Total
Fest XI Fundraiser hits Zoo City
Apparel in conjunction with Cinco
De Mega. All ages performances
by Vera and I Hate Your
Girlfriend begin at 5 PM. Gnargnar grub by Burns St. Bistro from
5-10 PM. 139 E. Main.

Hey Democrats, time to get together
for an evening of like-mindedness
during the Carol & Pat Williams
Dinner in the Governor’s Room at
the Florence Building. Scheduled
speakers include Nancy Keenan,
Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester
and AG Steve Bullock. Denny

Rehberg will be circling the block in a
leased SUV. $75 for the hosts’ reception/$45 for dinner. Call Shannon for
more info. at 543-0286.
John Floridis fills your Saturday
with songs and such at Draught
Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 5–8
PM. Free.

Have a sip of wine and take in all
Britchy has to offer when they
perform at the Ten Spoon Vineyard
and
Tasting
Room.
4175
Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Free.
Embrace the light during The
Light Show, a fundraiser for Living
Art of Montana that features live

BETTY’S DIVINE
521 S. Higgins, 721-4777
First Friday at Betty's Witness exotic creatures and their even stranger needs. This First Friday at
Betty's Divine features the work of Cait Finley. Finely’s sculpture examines the natural worlds adaptation to man's pervasive existence. Join us from 5-8 for wine and Bernice's goodies. Local duo Baby
& Bukowski will perform at 6.
CLAY STUDIO
1106 A Hawthorne, 543-0509
In culmination of a two-year residency, Eva Champagne will share her recent series of ceramic sculptures
in an exhibition titled Littoral Drift. This exhibit of biomorphic sculptures is an exploration of the seemingly paradoxical coexistence of resilience and fragility within a symbolically marginal setting.
LIVING ART OF MONTANA
549-5329
Living Art of Montana's 8th Annual "The Light Show" fundraiser on Saturday, May 5 at the Hilton
Garden Inn features unique lamps and pieces that emphasize "light" created by regional artists for
live and silent auctions. Limited tickets available ~ call 549-5329. See the fabulous art work at
www.livingartofmontana.org.
NOTEWORTHY PAPER & PRESS
101 Higgins, 541-6683
Noteworthy Paper & Press welcomes bookbinding artist Joan Ragan Kállay of Aunt Joan Productions.
Her exhibit Worthy of a Note; Handsomely Constructed Journals will be on display this First Friday from
5 to 8PM. Joan will also be doing a demonstration of Japanese stab bookbinding techniques. Join us
for this amazing collection of works, as well as light snacks and wine at 101 S. Higgins, near the Wilma.
SUSHI HANA DOWNTOWN
403 N. Higgins, 549-7979
Mandy Moonbird displays "Visions of Nature," at Sushi Hana for First Friday. Her work consists of
colorful and free-flowing paintings of sacred animals and symbols which she produces live at local
events. Opening 5-8pm Friday, May 4th, 2012. Showing through May 31st.

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SPOTLIGHT
wing and hoof
You can’t mistake Wild Delicate Seconds for
generic nature writing. The western toad is
described very unconventionally: “It has a slender
white line running down its spine, halving it into
two meaty sides.” The bison is
described in an equally raw way:
“shoulders tapering down to ridiculously small hips, hips as delicate and
fragile, or so they seemed, as the hip
bones of Christ.” Make you a little
uncomfortable? Yes. Not the way you
wrote about your nature experiences
in your journaling class? Exactly.
Author Charles Finn, editor of the
literary and art magazine High Desert
Journal, didn’t set out to write typical
ruminations. In fact, in his brief prologue, he makes the point that he didn’t include natural history or specific
locations, or even the circumstances under which
WHAT: A reading from Wild Delicate Seconds
WHO: author Charles Finn
WHERE: Fact & Fiction
WHEN: Tue., May 8, at 7 PM
HOW MUCH: Free
he meets these creatures. These encounters with
black bears, bumble bees, red foxes, pygmy owls,
trumpeter swans and other animals of the Pacific
Northwest are his personal encounters. Ever try to

An educational program designed to
empower people living with schizophrenia,
schizoaffective or bipolar disorder.
Michael Fuller, MD,
will present the program titled
"Relapse Awareness and Management Strategies."
Dr. Fuller is from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Tex.

Speech Focus: early detetction of relapse, common reasons for
relapse, relapse management strategies, the role of medication in
recovery, and accessing supportive treatments.
Choices in Recovery is sponsored by NAMI Missoula and
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

and silent auctions of light-producing objects produced by regional
artists, a sit-down dinner and entertainments, of course. Hilton
Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve. 5:45
PM. $60 pp/$450 for table of
eight/$540 for a table of ten. livingartofmontana.org.
The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.
A bunch of rag-tag musicians with
who knows what kind of instruments get together on the first Sat.
of every month for The Bitterroot
Valley Good-Time Jamboree, a
musical concert with Scatter the
Mud from 7–9:30 PM at The
Grange Hall, 1436 South 1st St.
Call Clem at 961-4949.
Satire and song and the Roaring
Twenties? Get on the trolly, bub, it
must be Chicago, as performed
by the UM School of Theatre and
Dance. UM’s PARTV Center. 7:30

draw a tree from memory, and then go out and
draw a particular tree? You’d be surprised by how
the particulars make the picture so much better.
Finn goes beyond being the observer who sees
himself as separate from nature. For
instance, picking up a hitchhiker, “a
Blackfeet man by the name of Tony
Cutfinger,” isn’t a tangent to the story of
snowy owls who “swivel their hunters
heads” and “blink their telescoping
eyes.” And you get why there’s a connection by the end of the essay.
If you’ve been paying attention to
Western nature writing, you might recognize a few of these 29 micro-essays
from Big Sky Journal or Montana
Magazine. They seem even more powerful together in one animal kingdom.
Finn is good with philosophy here, too.
Over-used metaphors about grains of sand in the
hourglass are almost too much. Fortunately, just
when it starts to get a little too cheesy, Finn cuts
back to the animal at hand: “Sandhill cranes pedaling their wings...beyond them the horizon
stretched for miles, the air above milk blue.” And
then he ends with copper light filling the cab of his
truck, and “another day had slipped by.” Aha! See
what he’s doing there? This is where the sands of
time creep back in with exacting, unforced sorrow.
I love that. Finn manages, in incredible brevity, to
give us enchanting—even, helpful—insight into
wild animals, and into good nature writing, as well.

PM. $20/ $16 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under.
umtheatredance.org.
Ladies arm wrasslin’ is about to get
real at Viva la GCLAW, an armbending event to raise funds for
Total Fest XI, with performances by
Bellatrix and tunes by Monks on
Fire. Zoo City Apparel, 139 E.
Main. 7:30 PM. $2.
Oh snap, it’s the Sharks and the Jets
doing their thing in the Missoula
Community Theatre production of
Westside Story. MCT Center for
the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams.
8 PM. $15-$21.
Snort up all the tea in the cupboard
and head to the Symes Hotel in Hot
Springs to hear the tunes of Andrea
Harsell. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat.
DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo
will tell you that Washington
Middle School ain’t no joke man
during Absolutely, a dance party
featuring every style of rump-shaking tuneage. The Badlander. Doors
at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until
11 PM. Free.

—Erika Fredrickson

Sweat to the oldies and make eyes
at the cuties when Russ Nasset &
The Revelators perform for you
and your dancin’ feet at the Union
Club. 9 PM. Free.
Take the shuttle out to the
Lumberjack Saloon and fool
around with a gal from Elk City,
Idaho, while Cold Hard Cash
pays fine tribute to Johnny Cash. 9
PM. Free.
Party all night and party til dawn at
the Dusk Til Dawn dancefest with
DJs Commodore 69, Ebola
Syndrome, Come Se Va, Kris
Moon, Tak 45 and Hotpantz.
American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan.
From dusk until dawn, seriously.
18 plus, $10. Alcohol for those
21 plus.
Stand by for heavy rolls, shipmate,
cuz Tidal Horn is having a CD
release party with help from rockin’
noodlers and shredinators Bacon
& Egg and the Red Carpet
Devils. 9 PM. $5.
The Brick Room hosts a Latin
Dance Night for all you salsa and

merengue and reggaeton fans.
Music by DJ Hart. Lesson at 8 PM.
Passionate dancing from 9 PM–2
AM. The event benefits the
Missoula International School. $16
per couple/$10 singles. 121 W.
Main. ddcmontana.com.
Boot scoot on down to the Sunrise
Saloon and do some dancin’ and
pants romancin’ with the Mark
Duboise Band. 1805 Regent St.
9:30 PM. Free.
DJ Dubwise supplies dance
tracks all night long so you can take
advantage of Sexy Saturday and
rub up against the gender of your
choice at Feruqi’s. 10 PM. Free. Call
728-8799.
Join the Phat Conductor, Ill Gates,
for a night of hip-hop and whatnot
at The Top Hat. 10 PM. Cost TBD.
Metal jokesters Pychostick return
to MSO along with Downtown
Brown. Plus locals Blessiddoom
and Undun. Monk’s Bar, 225
Ryman. $15/$10 adv., available at
Bodega or Monk’s.

production of Westside Story.
MCT Center for the Performing
Arts, 200 N. Adams. 2 PM. $15$21.
Occupy Missoula General
Assembly takes place at the
Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 2–4
PM. occupymissoula.org.
Open up and say ahh, cuz the
Mountain Breathers are doing
music at Draught Works Brewery.
915 Toole. 4–7 PM. Free.

nightlife
The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.
Close out the weekend in style with
$4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz & DJs, during the
Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night.
Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh
Farmer, The Vanguard Combo
and Front Street Jazz. Free.

Cinco De Mega wraps up with
the late-night portion of Rites
of Spring: A Gastropunk
Fundraiser for Total Festfest XI
at the VFW, with performances by
Shane Hickey and Jerry, Spirit
Hole and The Magpies. 245 W.
Main. 10 PM. $3/$2 with wristband
from GCLAW event.

Well-liked by the internets and
adored by fans of psych-pop garagitude, Ty Segall, of the San
Fancisco Segalls, performs with
White Fence and lovely locals
Needlecraft. Badlander. 9 PM.
$10/$5 surcharge for those 18-20.

The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.

Those looking for mother-to-mother breast feeding support can find
it when the La Leche League
meets every first Mon. of the
month at 10 AM at the First
Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Fifth
St. W., and on the third Mon. of the
month at 6 PM in the small meeting room of the Missoula Public
Library. Free. Children and babies
are always welcome.
Blue Mountain Clinic, along with
the Missoula AIDS Council, offers
free, anonymous and blood-free
HIV testing. 610 N. California.
1–4 PM. Free. Call 721-1646.
For all those affected by epilepsy,
come to the Epilepsy Support
Group at Summit Independent
Living Center. 700 SW Higgins.
2–3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707.
Nightlife
At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM
until close, slackline fans can come
to Freestone Climbing Center at
935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit
freestoneclimbing.com.
The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.
See what’s new on the menu and
listen to the delights of The
Captain Wilson Conspiracy at
the Red Bird Wine Bar. 111 N.
Higgins. 7–10 PM. Free.
Prepare for the Metropolitan
Opera’s four-part performance of
Wagner’s Ring Cycle by checking
out the documentary Wagner’s
Dream, which chronicles the creation of Robert Lepage’s new production. Music Recital Hall. $10/$9

The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.
Get a look at some good woodcarvings at the Western Montana
Woodcarvers’ Show. Western
Montana Fairgrounds, Home Arts
Bldg. 11:30 AM–4 PM. $3.
Go with the jam when The Rocky
Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S.
First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a
weekly acoustic jam session for
guitarists, mandolin players and
others from 2–4 PM. Free. Call
Clem at 961-4949.
Oh snap, it’s the Sharks and the
Jets doing their thing in the
Missoula Community Theatre

Missoula Independent Page 29 May 3 – May 10, 2012

SPOTLIGHT
step right up
The circus can be as beautiful as it is spooky.
There is grace in the movement of the aerialists.
There are loud, clumsy clowns. There are oddities
of strength and appearance. The various forms
and colors are attractive to us as young people
and as adults, particularly to artists who find the
grotesque intriguing and inspiring. From spooky
sad clown portraits hanging in your grandma’s
bathroom to dogs playing poker in clown suits,
artists have used the circus to create otherworldly
works. Now four UM Media Arts School graduate
students have themselves been inspired to create
their own virtual circus.
Circuit Circus is an interactive audio-visual
mind, umm, freak. Charles Rafferty’s Twitter-Active
WHAT: Circuit Circus
WHO: Amanda Determan, Justin Lewis,
Charles Rafferty and Louey Winkler
WHEN: Fri., May 4, from 5 PM to 8 PM
WHERE: The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.
HOW MUCH: Free
encourages the audience to tweet their favorite circus memories. Then, in near-realtime, a computer
program breaks up the words within the tweets and

The Cultural and Art History
Club of Whitefish meets to discuss the only things that matter,
like Johannes Vermeer. Stumptown
Art Studio. 10–12 PM.

Bwork, bwork, worble-worble, you
guessed it: Milkcrate Monday’s
with the Milkcrate Mechanic presents Missoula Area Dubstep
(MAD) Monday, a night of dubstep with local DJs Logisticalone,
Osiris, Primecutz and the
Milkcrate Mechanic. Palace. 9
PM. Free, with free pool and $6
pitchers of PBR.
Open Mic with PD Lear at the
VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for
musicians and the working class.
10 PM. Free.

TUESDAY
May

08

The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com

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creates images based on those words. The images
are then projected onto the dance floor as Kung Fu
Kongress jams away during their Family Friendly
Friday set and children swirl about (it is a circus
after all). Don’t try any swears, smart guys, or you’ll
be seeing a lot of unicorn imagery. Things get weird
as Justin Lewis’ work, Noveau Cirque Des Images
Projector Show, morphs the audience into projected light. Of course, there is a fortune teller, the I
Ching and some “augmented mirrors” based on
some tripped out 3D technology that are bound to
warp your visual sense of self. Much like the “real”
circus, Circuit Circus thrives off of the audience’s
reaction but even more so from audience participation and interaction. If these Media Arts students
could only make a virtual elephant that soaked the
audience with a snout full of virtual water. If only.

Make it happen, for Fun with
Yoga at the Families First
Children’s Museum might work for
you and the kids. 11 AM. 225 W.
Front. $4.25.
Learn how to give and receive
empathy with Patrick Marsoleck
during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication
Weekly
Practice
Group at the Jeannette Rankin
Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins.
Noon–1 PM. Free.
Knitting For Peace meets at
Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill
levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St.
W. 1-3 PM. For information, call
543-3955.
Turns out high-altitude ice patches
are great places to find old stuff,
specifically because they don’t
move like glaciers do. So the
Rocky Mountains Cooperative
Ecosystem Studies Unit would
like to talk about the effects of cli-

nightlife
Start making sense at the weekly
Taking Pounds Off Sensibly
Meeting (TOPS) at First Baptist
Church in Whitefish. Weigh-in at 5
PM. Meeting at 5:30 PM. For more
info., call 862-5214.
You saw House Party, but you still
can’t do the Kid ‘N Play. Do something about it by taking the Downtown
Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip
Hop dance class with Heidi
Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6–7
PM. ddcmontana.com
The VFW hosts my kind of threeway during a night of Singers,
Songwriters and Spaghetti, with
food provided by the Blue Bison
Grill. 245 W. Main St. 6 PM. Free.
The Candidates’ Forum at Valley
Christian School hosts a variety of
candidates, including those vying
for County Commissioner, Public
Service Commissioner, State
Senate and State Reps. 2526
Sunset Ln. (in the auditorium).
6–9 PM. Contact Gloria for more
info. at 251-5961.

YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway,
hosts YWCA Support Groups for
women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM.
An American Indian-led talking circle
is also available, along with children’s
groups. Free. Call 543-6691.
The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for schedule or call 728-9380.
Charles Finn tells the tales of 29
wildlife encounters in his book Wild
Delicate Seconds with nary a
mauling in sight. He reads from it at
Fact & Fiction and is joined by cover
artist Claire Emery. 5 PM. Free.
(See Spotlight.)
Irish in Unlikely Places is a program given by Dr. David Emmons
for the W. Montana Genealogical
Society Meeting. And let me tell you,
the jokes were too easy and mostly
racist. Missoula Public Library, Large
Meeting Rm. 7 PM. Free.
Take a load off while you get a load
of some of the area’s better musicians during the Musician
Showcase at Brooks and Browns
in the Holiday Inn Downtown. $7
Big Sky pitchers and $2 pints. 200
S. Pattee St. Free.
Sean Kelly’s invites you to another
week of free Pub Trivia, which
takes place every Tue. at 8 PM.
And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience
while attending, here’s a sample of
the type of question you could be
presented with. What vainglorious general had an affair with
a girl nicknamed “Dimples” in
1929? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)
Now this is comedy, Frenchy! Get
your chuckle on during Comedy
Night at Lucky Strike Casino. 151
Dearborn Ave. 8 PM. $5.
Bow down to the sounds at Royal
Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by
DJs Supa, Smiley Banton and
Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.
Fight for your right to make a jerk of
yourself and win money doing it at
Karaoke with DJ LRock at the
Press Box. First place wins a $25 bar
tab. On the last Tues. of the month,
the winners battle for supremacy.
835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.
Get hip to the lingo but don’t pet
my dingo when 907Britt performs
at the Badlander’s Live and
Local Night. 10 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY
May

09

Hunter’s Education at Seeley
Lake begins today from 6–9 PM

for three nights, with a field course
the morning of Sat., May 12. To
register, go to fwp.mt.gov or call
542-5518.
The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.

nightlife
Let them dance, or at least give it a
try, during Kids’ Hip Hop (7–10
years old) at the Downtown Dance
Collective. No dance experience is
necessary and drop-ins are welcome. Just wear good clothes for
dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM.
ddcmontana.com
The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.
Part I of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, The
Rhine Gold, is performed by the
Metropolitan Opera and the gods
of Valhalla be a-clashin’. Music
Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $15/$14
seniors/free for UM students (go
to UM School of Music front
office). morrisproductions.org.
Oh snap, it’s the Sharks and the Jets
doing their thing in the Missoula
Community Theatre production of
Westside Story. MCT Center for
the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams.
8 PM. $15-$21.
Black Eyed Peas fanatics are welcome
to belt out their fave jamz at the
Badlander
during
Kraptastic
Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM.
Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser
and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.
Warlords of rawk and purveyors of
reeking riffage American Falcon
stalk the drippy confines of the
Palace and stomp guts along with
heavy rockers Swamp Ritual and
The Chalfonts. 9 PM. $5. Pub
trivia answer: General Douglas
MacArthur.
There ain’t much better than the
Adam Ezra Group, who perform
at The Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

THURSDAY
May

10

The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.
The North Valley Family Center’s
Welcome Baby Meeting gives

you a chance to handle your own
business after the little one arrives,
because if you don’t take care of
you who will? 5501 Hwy. 93. Ste.
3. 10 AM–Noon. Free.
The Riverfront Neighborhood
Council Meeting and Soup
Social takes place from 4:30–6
PM at the Montana Natural History
Center. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment. 120 Hickory.

nightlife
Dudes, come get your climb on
during
Freestone
Climbing’s
Dude’s Night. 935 Toole Ave.
5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.
Find how to support the College of
Technology and keep the UM Golf
Course during a meeting at the
Sentinel High School Cafeteria.
5:30–6:30 PM.
Always wondering who is doing all
that wharbling or going “caw-cawcaw”? Head to the Ft. Missoula
Native Plant Gardens and find out
who the bastages are that make all
that noise during the Beginning
Bird Identification Party. Binocs
provided. 5:30-7:30 PM. $5 suggested donation.
Listen like thieves when Three
Eared Dog gets their blues on
over at Draught Works Brewery.
915 Toole. 5:30–8 PM. Free.
Get your locution on and become
fixated oratorically at the weekly
meeting of the Treasure State
Toastmasters. Community Medical
Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft.
Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.
Hey fellow lovers of knowledge
and spirituality and the Root, this
month’s
Bitterroot
Public
Library Fellowship Club meeting
is Taking the Leap: Freeing
Ourselves from Old Habits and
Fears with Buddhism teacher
Pema Chadron. 6–7:30 PM. Free.

First Annual Holistic Health Fair
Saturday, May 12 • 11am-7pm
Admission is FREE!
Drawings, snacks and hourly presentations by practitioners
Indulge, Relax and Heal with sessions from local practitioners.

John Smith gets multi-intrumental
and all sorts of positive when he
performs at the Bitter Root Brewery
in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.
The 35th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival takes place
throughout the day and evening.
Check wildlifefilms.wordpress.com
for a complete schedule or call
728-9380.
Stephen F. Siebert discusses his
book Nature and Culture of
Rattan, which looks at how the
rattan palm was and is used by cultures that live in tropical forests. I
suspect some bad news. Fact &
Fiction. 7 PM. Free.
This American Life Live returns to
the big screen via simulcast. See
what kind of suit Ira wears and see
your liberal arts-degreed friends in
the intimate environs of the Roxy

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Theater. 7 PM. $16/$14/$11. Tickets available
at Rockin Rudy’s and Shakespeare & Co.
Oh snap, it’s the Sharks and the Jets doing
their thing in the Missoula Community
Theatre production of Westside Story.
MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N.
Adams. 8 PM. $15-$21.

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Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab
your liberal arts degrees and head down to
the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night,
hosted by local gallant and possible Swede
Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 9 PM.
Free.
Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at
the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where
love and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208
Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9
PM–midnight.
Show ‘em how to do the Ploughman’s Rag
when Josh Farmer performs tunes for the
whole dang lot at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.
Hi-fi man-noise purveyors Total Combined
Weight are joined by some fly ladies and
dudes at Ladies’ Night during their VFW
Residency Series Week One, with the
yummy Needlecraft, the highly dee-lish
Vera and the crack-a-lackin’ I Hate Your
Girlfriend. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free.
What do ya know? Party Trained is doing
work down at the Sunrise Saloon. 1100
Strand. 9 PM. Free.

Rave up and be the hotsteppa with a flair for
being awesome and glove dancin’ at
Synergy Sessions with DJs Kris Moon,
Tahjbo/Paradigm Shift, Ishvara and
Logisticalone. 9 PM. Free.
Sho Down makes Pulse into a country
bumpkin’s delight, with hay bales and all.
Bring your hat and a tailgate to set on. Press
Box, 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.
It’s better than no cake at all when
Yesterday’s Cake performs at the Dark
Horse Bar. 1805 Regent. 9 PM. Free.
Close your eyes and hear the man in black
when the Cold Hard Cash Show comes to
The Top Hat with Bozeman’s The
Mustache Bandits. 10 PM. Cost TBD.
The sun is out, then it’s not. It’s cold and it’s
warm. It’s up and it’s down. It’s like a Katy
Perry song up in this piece. Never fear,
though, there is too much to do, just
pick one and do it. Send your event info
by 5 PM on Fri., May. 4 to calendar@
missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail
the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the
Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula,
MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.
You can also submit stuff online. Just head
to the arts section of our website and scroll
down a few inches and you’ll see a link that
says “submit an event.”

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t’s spring. Lady Slippers are appearing on hillsides. Cats are staring at squirrels from the
safety of the front porch. And the bears are up
and about. That’s great about the bears and all.
Unless you’re a ‘Snaker who consistently leaves trash
outdoors or owns an apple tree with a few rotten
cores mingling among the blades of revitalized grass.
Rather than pooh-pooh the bears’ arrival, we should
celebrate it. After all, they were here first and they are
still a powerful reminder of how amazing the wild
world is. Imagine if you slept for a week, let alone if
you slept for three months, and awoke to the smell of
people-food wafting through the air. Even the garbage
might smell gourmet at that point. To honor the
power and spirit of the bear, the Great Bear
Foundation holds an annual
International
Multicultural Bear Welcoming with events in Missoula,

at the Kicking Horse Powwow and at Glacier Park. The
foundation’s goal is for people to coexist with bears:
We learn to live with them rather than vice versa. One
way to do that is to check out the Bear Foods Buffet
and Rattlesnake Creek Walk. Attendees can join GBF
president Chuck Jonkel on a walk along the creek,
where he’ll talk about the emerging spring bear foods.
Afterward, a “bear foods buffet” of nettles, berries, elk,
and fiddleheads is served while various speakers discuss the cultural and ecological roles of bears. Sounds
like a beary good time.
The Great Bear Foundation’s Bear Foods
Buffet & Rattlesnake Creek Bear Walk takes
place at the Greenough Park Picnic Shelter, Fri.,
May 4, at 5 PM. $20 suggested donation, but
no one will be turned away. Visit greatbear.org
for more info.

Photo by Chad Harder

THURSDAY MAY 3
Drop the controller and check out this month’s theme
at the Montana Natural History Center’s
miniNaturalists Pre-K Program. This month’s
theme is Osprey. Pliny the Elder would approve. 120
Hickory St. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. montananaturalist.org.
You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing
Center’s Ladies Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM.
$6.50/$5 students.
Before you get all tuned up, Mr. Pastorious, you should
know that the Montana Native Plant Society’s
event Mt. Sentinel Budburst has nothing to do with
anything but discovering native plants. Meet on the
south side of campus, at the corner of Beckwith and
Madeline, at the picnic table east of the Forest Service
lab. 6:30 PM. Free.

FRIDAY MAY 4
Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain
Sports Club’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the
Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about being awesome, past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River
Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.
Get back in shape and learn something new at
Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro. to Bouldering
course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff,
ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.
7–8:30 PM. $40.

SATURDAY MAY 5
Help support the 1846 Hudson’s Bay Trading Post
during the Fort Connah Open House Rendezvous,
which encourages old-timey dress, camping and black
powder action. Located 6 miles north of St. Ignatius at
mile post 39. Call Scott at 381-0759 for more info.
Five Valleys Audubon would like you to greet the
spring arrivals during their all-day foray to Brown’s
Lake. Waterfowl, cranes and curlews are scheduled for
arrival. Meet at the UM Field House parking lot at 8
AM. For more info., call 549-5632.
Learn to hunt like a truffle pig at the Nine-Mile
Spring Mushroom Workshop led by Garden City
Fungi. Nine-Mile Community Center. 10 AM–2 PM.
Call 626-5757 for more info.
The Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group is holding the

event Community Stewardship in Our Own
Backyard, which teaches people the differences
between intact and degraded habitat and how to
improve things in general with a bit of planting action.
Greenough Park Pavilion, 1629 Monroe. 10 AM–3 PM.
Become the local expert on all things Milltown at the
Milltown State Park Bluff Tour. Catch the ASUM
bus at the E. Broadway Park and Ride at 1 PM or at
the Sha-Ron Fishing Access at 1:15 PM. Free.

SUNDAY MAY 6
Leave the vainglorius etymologies and bellocose verbiage behind and join 50,000 humans for Spokane’s
annual Bloomsday Run, 12K of mellow and one
wicked hill. Starts at 8:40 AM (PST). Go to bloomsdayrun.org to register.
Get back in shape and learn something new at
Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro. to Bouldering
course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff,
ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.
Noon–1:30 PM. $40.

MONDAY MAY 7
At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline
fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935
Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students.
Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

WEDNESDAY MAY 9
Hunter’s Education at Seeley Lake begins today
from 6–9 PM for three nights, with a field course the
morning of Sat., May 12. To register, go to fwp.mt.gov
or call 542-5518.

THURSDAY MAY 10
Dudes, come get your climb on during Freestone
Climbing’s Dude’s Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM.
$6.50/$5 students.
Always wondering who is doing all that wharbling or
going “caw-caw-caw”? Head to the Ft. Missoula Native
Plant Gardens and find out who the bastages are that
make all that noise during the Beginning Bird
Identification Party. Binocs provided. 5:30-7:30
PM. $5 suggested donation.
calendar@missoulanews.com

For the past seven years, the Montana Skatepark
Association has mailed out blank skateboard decks to artists
and waited to see what came back. More often than not, the
return packages offered bizarre discovery after delightfully
bizarre discovery. Each artist received the same thing—just
the blank deck, nothing else—but managed to turn it into a
reflection of his or her own aesthetic.
“I’ve said it before, but I feel like the show mimics skateboarding in that everyone gets the same tool, but each one
does something different with it,” says Andy Kemmis, who’s
been involved with the On Deck art auction since its inception. “You get to see so many different styles and techniques,
just like you would among a group of riders at the skatepark.
There doesn’t seem to be any limit to what people think of
each year.”
On Deck 7, which debuts May 4 during a First Friday
reception at the Brink Gallery, is no exception to what’s
become one of Missoula’s more anticipated and unusual
annual art shows. Among the 40 boards on display and up
for auction this year is a sculpture by Missoula woodworker
Taylor Haworth of what looks like a mutated aardvark
head—or is it “ALF” from the old TV series?—mounted on a
blood red-stained deck; it’s titled “Larry.” There’s also an
acrylic landscape by Los Angeles-based artist Nathan Spoor
called “The Tourists,” with a deep blue sea, a sky full of thick
clouds and a solitary teddy bear clutching a floating balloon.
Andrea Leggitt of Missoula’s Salty and Sweet Design used a
300-pound laser cutter to carve mechanical renderings of
vintage cameras into her deck. Loryn Zerr, also from
Missoula, created something that doesn’t even look like it’s
for the same exhibition: a profile of Pele, the Hawaiian god
of fire, cut out from the original deck so the god’s hand
extends beyond the end of the board, dangling a pendant in
the air. Zerr’s piece also features an erupting volcano, with
the smoke made of twisted wire.
“We’re never quite sure what we’re going to get and
there’s a certain faith that goes along with working with
the artists,” says Kemmis. “But, like with Nathan, who’s
done the show before, we opened it this year and were
like, ‘Yep, that’s going to get some attention. That’s going
to raise some money.’”
In the seven years the MSA has run the auction, the

event’s prestige among the artistic and skateboarding communities has grown. That means more artists applying to be
involved—the MSA had to choose from among nearly 100
applications this year—and a consistently high-quality show.
“I feel like that’s the thing that’s changed the most since we
started—the level of the artists and their boards has been
well and above awesome,” says Chris Bacon, president of
the MSA.
No other name this year signifies the event’s rise better
than internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Haroshi.
Anonymous local art collectors purchased “Middle Finger,”
one of his signature sculptures—a fire hydrant made entirely of recycled skateboard decks, fused together like a mosaic—from a Los Angeles art show earlier this year, and donated the piece for display during On Deck 7. The piece, as is
customary with all of Haroshi’s work, includes a hidden
metal skateboard piece in the center that’s intended to give
it a “soul.” As a bonus, once Haroshi heard of the Missoula
event, he sent a number of signed, limited-edition prints of
the sculpture for the auction.
In addition to Haroshi, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament continued his involvement with the show this year. The local
shredder—he has a skatepark at his Missoula home—offered
up a deck he designed himself and that will adorn the cover
of his upcoming solo album.
Even with the bigger names and established artists,
Kemmis and Bacon say they’ve worked hard to maintain the
event’s local focus.
“We walk a line every year, and make sure there are
always some new names and a lot of Montana artists,” says
Kemmis. “I think as long as everyone keeps coming up with
new ideas for what to do with a piece of a skateboard, we’ll
be in good shape.”
The Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St., hosts an opening reception for On Deck 7 Friday, May 4, beginning
at 5 p.m. Bidding ends on Friday, but the exhibition
will be on display throughout the month. Proceeds
from the auction will pay for new features and
repairs at the MOBASH Skatepark. Visit montanaskatepark.org/ondeck for more information.
sbrowning@missoulanews.com

Ben Malouf’s 3-D art

Four other First Friday finds
Ben Malouf is a little like Scotty from “Star
Trek,” except instead of beaming things from place to
place he hits “print” on a 3-D printer and can recreate
almost anything in plastic. It’s weird, and must be seen
to be believed. Lucky for us, the Media Arts graduate
student has an exhibition of his 3-D printed sculptures, and a live demonstration of his futuristic
process, at Fisher Video Conferencing, 135 W. Main
St., from 5 to 8 p.m.

Music-fusion painting is not nearly as complex
as it sounds—or as complex as 3-D printing, for that
matter—but it’s still a sight to see. It’s basically fine art
as performance, and in this case Jason Bohman, who
has painted alongside local bands Miller Creek, Zeppo
MT and Butter, will be working live on stage at
Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave, from 5 to 9 p.m.

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Eva Champagne caps her two-year residency at
the Clay Studio of Missoula with an exhibition titled
Littoral Drift. The title has to do with tides and currents, and her ceramic work has a distinctly quirky,
definitively aquatic vibe. Opening reception begins at
5:30 p.m. and goes until 9, with the show on display
through May 25. The Clay Studio is located at 1106
Hawthorne St.

This one means a little something to the
Independent: Former editorial intern Kyle Lehman
suffered a traumatic brain injury earlier this year while
biking across the country. Local artists are holding an
auction to benefit the Kyle Lehman Recovery Fund at
Hellgate Cyclery, 316 N. Higgins (in the alley), beginning at 5 p.m.

Scope Noise Art Film Movie Shorts
Tidal Horn
Tidal Horn
self-released

Consider the art on Tidal Horn’s new album: A yeti,
its mouth bloodied from biting a mountain goat, waves
the rock horns. On the back cover: A creature with a skull
for a head, devil horns and mermaid body hoists a severed head. In other words, Tidal Horn enjoys glorious
over-the-topness. Last year, the Indy picked Tidal Horn
for Missoula’s Best New Band, and this album bolsters
that decision.
The first track, “Yeti,” sounds like an epic Viking
journey through stormy seas and ice-capped mountains.
But the Missoula band is flexible. “Burn It Down,” at least
in the beginning, evokes UK garage rock, then slithers
into a momentary mathy breakdown before it winds
back into a Sabbath-like metal realm.
Guitarists Kyle McCann and Sam Kaley boldly go

Ty Segall
Ty Segall is an
insanely prolific indie
songwriter in the tradition of Jay Reatard,
which makes the question of what to expect
from him a little difficult to answer. Expect
more songs. “Goodbye
Bread,” from his 2011 album of the same name, sounds
like John Lennon overdosed on ketamine during the
verse part of “Revolution.” “My Head Explodes,” from the
same album, is less mellow, dirging toward a hoarse
grunge chorus in a way that recalls early Beck B-sides.

Peanut Butter Wolf
Los Angeles’ Peanut Butter Wolf is the benevolent
puppet master of American independent hip-hop. You
might not recognize him, but he’s been making beats, putting out records and working stealthily behind the scenes
of the genre since the late 1980s. In 1996, he founded
Stones Throw Records, one of the most prominent indie
hip-hop labels in America. Here’s another reason why he’s
a big deal: He tours the world as a DJ/VJ and offers an
audio/visual experience that’s simple but astounding in its
execution.
The last time he was here, in 2009, he delivered a
flawless mix of music videos dating from the 1950s to the
present. He played classic pop tunes that your daddy
probably awkwardly danced to in middle school, and
then took viewers on a trip through the 1960s by drop-

Fruit Bats
“You’re
Too
Weird,” from last
year’s Fruit Bats
album, Tripper (Sub
Pop), is a musical
Rorschach test. If
you like its pathogenically
catchy
melody
and
’70s
Photo courtesy of Annie Beedy
shuffle, you are still
capable of experiencing fun. If all you hear is the falsetto, you may be the music fan equivalent of the guy who
sees every ink blot as a pile of dead puppies.
Admitted: Fruit Bats is not a particularly serious
band. Also admitted: frontman Eric Johnson is a mem-

haywire with their
guitar solos on
almost every track.
Kaley’s disciplinarian
vocals, especially on
“Line Em Up,” are
delightfully slowburning, even when
he’s barking commands. Plus, there’s a sweet hint of mocking charm.
“Dead Ridge” kicks off with an amazing and sort of
hilarious hawk-like falsetto scream. I don’t mean it’s
silly, I mean it’s awesomely outrageous in a Dio kind of
way. Tales of mythical beasts and other lore involving
flashing daggers and boiling tides deserve nothing less.
(Erika Fredrickson)
Tidal Horn plays a CD release party at the Palace
Sat., May 5, at 9 PM with Bacon & Egg and Red Carpet
Devils. $5.
Somehow, despite their obvious differences, both of
these songs sound unmistakably the same.
A big part of that comes from Segall’s skillful lo-fi
production. By recording the drums, guitars and vocals
himself, he invests each song with an emotional unity that
makes it satisfyingly poppy no matter how jangling and
dissonant the arrangement. Whether he can achieve the
same effect live, with, like, a band and stuff, is another
question. It’s worth the gamble to find out, though, as
YouTube evidence suggests that the worst Ty Segall can be
is very loud. On Sunday he plays the Palace, where loud
is part of the decor. Go see a talented singer-songwriter
perform music that is relentlessly his own. (Dan Brooks)
Ty Segall plays the Palace Sunday, May 6, at 9 PM
with White Fence and Needlecraft. $10.

ping heady psych rock
jams and epic metal
tracks like Black
Sabbath’s “Paranoid.”
He also spun old
school hip-hop hits
from groups like
Public Enemy, along
Photo courtesy of Jeremy Deputat
with more recent rap
cuts from the Beastie Boys. He rocked the party with his
adroit skills and clever pairing of disparate genres, so I’d
expect him to tear it up when he returns to town this
week. (Ira Sather-Olson)
Peanut Butter Wolf plays the Badlander Friday,
May 4, at 9 PM with locals sAuce, Illegitimate
Children, Shaymlusly Elliterate and M-AD. $12/$10
advance at Ear Candy and Rockin Rudy’s.

ber of The Shins, making him complicit in one of the
most resentable pop phenomena of the last decade. If
you love hate, you will hear in Fruit Bats the noodling
guitar and modal progressions that lent The Shins and
Wilco and Steely Dan an essential sameness. But if you
love love, as a dwindling number of music aficionados
do, you’ll recognize the insouciance that gives Fruit Bats
songs what every good pop single has: fun.
I’m issuing an ultimatum, in other words. Fruit
Bats play The Top Hat on Friday with the also delightful
True Bathing Culture. Go find out if you need music to
be art, or if you can still just bob your head and enjoy
yourself. (Dan Brooks)
Fruit Bats play The Top Hat Friday, May 4, at
9 PM with True Bathing Culture and Mountain
Breathers. $14 day of show/$12 advance.

An important influence was Charlotte PerkinsGilman. Her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is
about the mounting madness of a woman who's been
locked in a room by her husband. As a result, some of
the earliest works included in Dysfunction are drawn
wallpapers and manipulated domestic objects that
illustrate various manifestations of mental disorder.
But Lemnitzer’s connection to mental disorders
runs deeper than just a 19th century work of fiction.
She’s also motivated by her own “massive anxiety” and
by her connections to people—friends, family members, fellow art school students—who have been deeply
affected by mental illness.
“I had a friend who was murdered by a woman
who was obsessed with him,” she says. “And then a
friend was killed in the Gabriel Gifffords shooting.
That was all in the same year, actually, so I have kind
of a bigger connection.…
So trying be okay with people and myself is a big deal.
I stopped doing art for a little bit after that stuff happened. I was like, ‘I don’t
really know if I want to do
this anymore.’”
When she returned to
her work, she aimed for art
that went beyond the decorative and encouraged
“empathy and understanding.” Part of doing so is making people uncomfortable.
Dysfunction will include a
number of videos that can
only be viewed through
The video “A Room of His Own” is part of Anna Lemnitzer’s exhibipeepholes. It’s an awkward
tion on abnormal psychology.
set-up, but that's the point.
fact that it contains no conventional paintings isn’t per- “They might get uncomfortable with other people waitversity. It’s a combination of convenience—she’s a stu- ing [for a turn to look],” she says, “but I kind of want
dent in the painting department, so her show has to be that anxiety.”
of paintings—and of her genuine and sustained effort
Some are found videos that have been edited,
to push her work beyond the boundaries of a canvas.
looped and layered. Others are disturbing performancWhen she first arrived in Missoula from Tucson, es done by the artist, her brother and others. “The
Ariz., where she’d been teaching high school art, she videos are usually anxiety rituals,” she says. “There’s
was interested in the kind of painting you do with paint this disorder called dermatillomania, where they pick
on a two-dimensional plane.
off their skin. So I did a piece where I simulated that....
“Then I started looking at landscape and rock for- And then another you’ll look in and there will be
mations and I was interested in the fractures of the sound—but I don’t want to tell everything. I want peolandscape, so I started doing that but everybody kept ple to just see it.”
saying ‘That’s Ab Ex, that’s Ab Ex,’” she says. What they
There will be a lot to see, as the work will overtake
meant is that they saw her work as being derivative of the big space of the Brunswick Gallery. Lemnitzer has
Abstract Expressionism, the mid-20th century school of even built a bar for the show and installed peepholes in
art that was led by people like Jackson Pollack and it, so that viewers can watch videos while they have a
Willem de Kooning and that was defined by spontane- drink. This, she says, will be called “the self-medication
ity, energy and abstraction. Lemnitzer didn’t like that. station.” I have serious doubts that it will make anyone
“I’m like, ‘No it’s not. It’s rock and it’s fractured. And feel any better. But that, of course, isn’t the point.
Lemnitzer wants to make us feel something deeper,
you’re not getting it.’”
From there, she tried to relate her work to the something harder: the discomfort of dysfunction.
Anna Lemnitzer’s exhibit Dysfunction opens
human body: how we all age and fracture and die. “But
that wasn’t apparent in the painting,” she says. “So I with a reception Friday, May 4, at the Brunswick
examined it and looked at what are fractures inside of Gallery, 223 W. Railroad St., from 5 to 9 PM. Free.
the human body or the mind. So I started looking at
arts@missoulanews.com
mental disorders.”
Anna Lemnitzer’s hands and pants are covered in
white dust. A friend of hers crouches on the floor, painting the panes of an unhinged window white. Tools and
brushes and buckets are strewn everywhere. The weekend-long process of installing Dysfunction, Lemnitzer’s
M.F.A. thesis exhibition, is just beginning and she’s trying to explain to me what it will look like when it’s finished. There will be, she tells me, videos, drawings,
installations, even light switches for viewers to flip.
“But I call it all painting,” Lemnitzer says, “because
the color is used in layers.” She pauses, notes my confusion, and tries to explain. “Even though it’s sculpture,
I call it painting.”
I’m getting further away from understanding, and
she notices.
“I know,” she says sympathetically.
That Lemnitzer calls her show painting despite the

Scope Noise Art Film Movie Shorts

Tiger by the tail
IWFF film explores India’s complex Bengal

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The story of India’s Bengal tiger is eerily similar
to that of the American bison, and equally depressing.
What once was a worldwide tiger population of more
than 100,000 at the turn of the 20th century has been
whittled down via hunting and habitat loss to fewer
than 3,000 animals – about 1,400 of which are in
India.
In Broken Tail, we see grainy video and old photographs of hunting expeditions from the early 1900s
that make it evident that killing the giant cat was as
much about sport as it was nuisance control.

Broken Tail

Today, the fact that any wild animal, particularly
a predator of this size, still has the ability to roam
freely in a country of over 1.1 billion people is somewhat jarring, a fact that this documentary examines
with an honest eye and a heart that’s in the right
place.
Broken Tail is your Best of Festival winner for
this year’s International Wildlife Film Festival, and
despite an occasionally clunky narrative and inconsistent production value, it’s a film worth seeing for its
original conceit and powerful message. It’s not a feelgood nature flick in the traditional sense, but it won’t
leave you feeling overwhelmingly depressed about
the state of tigers, or even humanity in general.
We know within 15 minutes that Broken Tail is
an autopsy of sorts for a young male Bengal tiger. In
the prologue, we meet Irish filmmaker and tiger conservationist Colin Stafford-Johnson, who spent more
than 600 days filming a tiger family—including
Broken Tail, one of two cubs—in India’s
Ranthambore National Park.
Although the odd tameness of the tigers in early
footage from the preserves is never explained, the
beauty of the tigers lounging in crumbling Indian
ruins within Ranthambore is captivating. StaffordJohnson, who also narrates the film, spends nearly
two years tracking and following Broken Tail as he

grows into a young adult tiger, only to suddenly lose
all trace of him.
His body is found a year later, more than 100
miles outside the park in the city of Darra. He had
been killed by a train.
Devastated by the news, Stafford-Johnson makes it
his mission to understand why the tiger traveled so far
from home, and what he may have encountered along
the way. He sets out on horseback with a companion
to make the trip from Ranthambhore to Darra, taking
a route that Broken Tail may have followed.
As a storytelling and
advocacy device, this setup works more often than
not. Overall, the exploration of the possible various human-tiger interactions, from goat herders
to poachers, is illuminative and thoughtful.
Take the issue of tiger
poaching in India today.
It’s far more complex
than the lustful sport
hunting of bison across
the Great Plains in the
late 1800s or of Bengal
tigers in the early 1900s.
At one point in Broken
Tail, the narrator speaks
with a self-identified
poacher who explains
that he is not a rich man
from the $100 he is paid
for a tiger but that his
children are fed.
The people who live around the reserves in
India are generally impoverished, so for a few, the
lure of poaching is great. Unfortunately, as StaffordJohnson carefully points out, their own fates may be
sealed by the extinction of the tiger—many of the
reserves and associated watersheds where these villagers live are protected from development and
urban encroachment because of the presence of the
tigers.
That issue is the crux of Broken Tail: It’s not just
that tigers need more space, it’s that they need connected space. Wildlife preserves and national parks
are a necessary start, but as this film plainly shows,
islands of refuge cannot adequately contain a large
predator with roaming instincts. And the problems
begin the moment they step outside of their safe
havens.
Stafford-Johnson’s enthusiasm and passion for
the subject occasionally get the best of him, but it’s
hard to fault him too much. India’s Bengal tigers
need more advocates like him.
Broken Tail screens this week at the Roxy
Theater on Sunday, May 6, at 9 PM. The IWFF runs
Sat., May 5, through Sat., May 12. Check wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule.

THE ARTIST
Will talking pictures end silent film star George
Valentin’s career? Will he find love with a young
dancer? It seems black-and-white to me.
Starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo.

THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT
Lordy, lordy, if you’ve been engaged five years
and your still not married the fam is gonna be
all up in your biz and you may just find yourself second-guessing the relationship. Starring

quirky, lovable fellas just looking for meaning in
the world. Starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms.
Rated R. Wilma: 7 nightly, with matinees on
Sat. at 1.
THE LUCKY ONE
A Marine believes a photo of a mystery lady
saved his life while he was in Iraq. Now he must
find that lady and make her love him.
Starring Zac Efron and Blythe Danner.
Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30,
7:30 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9
pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3
pm.
THE RAVEN
John Cusack dyes his hair an ungodly
shade of black and plays Edgar Allen
Poe, an author tracking a heinous serial killer in old-timey Baltimore. You
come at the king, you best not miss.
Also starring Alice Eve. Rated R.
Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 and
10:15 pm.
SAFE
My dawg, Jason Statham, keeps a little
girl with a lot of knowledge safe from
all kinds of bad guys: Russians, the
Triad and NYC cops on the take. Did I
mention Statham is an ex-cage fighter?
Those dudes are done, son! Also starring Catherine Chan. Rated R. Village 6:
1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 9:45 pm.
SALMON FISHING IN YEMEN
A sheikh dreams of fly-fishing in that
dry old Yemen, and British fisheries
expert Ewan McGregor is brought in
to help make it happen and most likely trawl for love with government aid
Kristin Scott Thomas. Rated PG-13.
Wilma: 9 pm nightly, with Sat. matinee at 3 pm. Showboat: 1 pm on Sat.
and Sun.
THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS
There is a battle for the pirate of the year
award, and the pirates find themselves a
bit out of their element in Victorian
London after going about Robin Hood’s
barn to get there. Stars the voices of
Hugh Grant and Salma Hayek. Rated PG.
Carmike 12: 1:30 and 6:30 pm. 3D: 4
and 8:30 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm,
with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun.
Entertainer: 4, 7, and 9 pm.

“‘Scuse me while I whip this out.” The Avengers opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

NOW PLAYING
21 JUMP STREET
Let’s jump into the story of a couple of dopey
cops who go back to high school to foil an
undercover drug ring. Starring Jonah Hill,
Channing Tatum and Peter Deluise (jokes).
Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and

Rated PG-13. Village 6: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and
9:45 pm.
CABIN IN THE WOODS
Man, there is no doubt that this is more than
some cruddy old cabin. There are secrets. And
the friends who go there have secrets. And
secrets mean power and weakness. Nuts.
Starring Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford.
Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45, 7:15 and
9:45 pm. Showboat: 4:15, 7 and 9 pm, with
matinees at 12:30 pm on Sat. and Sun.
CHIMPANZEE
Holy cuteness, a young chimpanzee is separated from his crew and a full-grown male
adopts him. Man, this is gonna be cute.
Directed by BBC nature documentarian Mark

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Jason Segel and Emily Blunt. Rated R. Village
6: 1:10, 4:10, 7:15 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex:
6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm matinees on
Sat. and Sun.
THE HUNGER GAMES
Oh lordy, in the future children are chosen by
The Man to fight to the death on live TV. Wait,
there’s TV in the future? Heinous. Starring
Jennifer Lawrence and Stanley Tucci. PG-13.
Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. Village 6: 1, 4,
7 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 pm, with 3 pm
matinees on Sat. and Sun.
JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME
This film from the Duplass Brothers
(Cyrus/Baghead) follows the seemingly mundane lives of two brothers, who turn out to be

THINK LIKE A MAN
It’s about time someone made one of
“comedian” Steve Harvey’s books into a
movie. Look here now, men are horny
boys and women are always trying to control them. And men don’t like being tricked by
their wives. Comeuppance time, y’all. Starring
Gabrielle Union and Kevin Hart. Rated PG-13.
Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:45 pm.
Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.
Moviegoers be warned! Show times are
good as of Fri., May. 4. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite
our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief
and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead
to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike
12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521;
P h a r a o h p l e x i n H a m i l t o n – 9 61- F I L M ;
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LOST & FOUND
lost bike and bike
trailer
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PET OF THE WEEK
Molly prances and hops around without a care in the world. No one ever
told her cats should have long tails!
She is a friendly, 8 year old, Manx
cat. She loves to be scratched behind
the ears and will rub up against you
when she wants attention. She is a
quiet cat who likes to spend her alone
time snoozing in a comfy bed. Manx
cats are known for having dog-like
personalities. Molly is sure to bring
joy to her new family! Visit her at the
Humane Society or call (406)5493934 for more information.

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that
everything in this life has a purpose" -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

CARPY DIEM
My boyfriend and I are
college juniors, happily together 10 months and living
together for five. An article I
read said it’s healthy to argue with your partner, and I got a little worried. We sometimes
bicker about what to watch on TV, but one
of us quickly gives in, and that’s it. It does
bug me that he’s chronically late and his car
is filled with dirty cups, random CDs, empty
wrappers, etc., but I basically just shrug this
stuff off. He seems to do likewise with stuff
I do that bugs him. Are we both just really
easygoing? I worry that we may be missing
some passionate connection.
–Drama-Free
Of course “Romeo and Juliet” is the
great love story of all time. What were they,
14? Self-assertion doesn’t cause much conflict when you don’t have all that much self
to assert like when you’re in the primordial
personswamp of your early 20s. Just consider the sort of questions that you, as a couple sharing a life in the edu-womb, are
forced to gnash over: Jell-O shots or beer
pong? Cup Noodles or Top Ramen? Why
was “Arrested Development” canceled? If
the universe disappeared, would the rules
of chess still exist?
Sure, even now, you may be faced
with one of the big relationship-crushing issues like money problems, forcing one of
you to call your dad and then go out in the
pouring rain to the ATM. But, later in life,
when the issue may be which of you
stands in the rain with your stuff the sheriff
put out on the lawn, the arguing itself isn’t
what breaks you up. In fact, it is important
to engage and hash out your issues so
they don’t burrow in. What seems to matter is how you treat each other when you
aren’t disagreeing, in all the seemingly
unimportant little moments.
Psychologist Dr. John Gottman, who
does some of the best research on why
marriages succeed and fail, calls this the
“emotional bank account model” of relationships. He writes in “The Seven Principles for
Making Marriage Work” that romance is kept
alive “each time you let your spouse know
he or she is valued during the grind of everyday life.” He explains this as a consistent
“turning toward” each other rather than turning away: remaining engaged in your partner’s world by reuniting at dinner and asking
about each other’s day; consistently expressing fondness and admiration; showing love
in the tiniest of ways. Essentially, Gottman
explains, you need to treat your partner like
they’re important even when you’re in the

supermarket together and they ask something mundane, like “Are we out of bleach?”
Instead of shrugging apathetically, you say,
“I’ll go get us some so we won’t run out.”
At the moment, your biggest problem
is that you two don’t really have any problems. This is what’s called a First World
problem like “I don’t have enough counter
space for all of my appliances” or “I have
to walk through the living room of this
$350 hotel suite to get to the bathroom.”
It could be that you’re both easygoing, or
that you’re starter people in a starter relationship, or that you’ve yet to reach your
poo-flinging, death-glaring annoyance
threshold. Perhaps just try to enjoy yourselves instead of worrying that nothing’s
ripping you apart tragic as it is that you’re
far too content together to have hate sex.

FASTIDIOUS AND FURIOUS
My boyfriend’s fastidiously clean. I’m not. Before
we moved in together, this
was a source of teasing. Now
it causes fights. I constantly
upset him by letting dirty dishes sit, forgetting
to dump the recycling, and allowing projects,
books, papers and stuff to pile up all over.
He’s tried to be more accepting, and I’ve
tried to remember to clean up, but it’s not
working. I suggested we each get our own
place again, but he thinks that sounds like a
step backward.
–Messy
Your boyfriend could be more openminded: It’s not just a kitchen; it’s a probiotics wildlife refuge. You point to the grout:
“See this furry green patch? I’ve decided to
name it ‘Pam.’” And sure, you could hire a
weekly housecleaner with the money
you’re saving by cohabiting and make filing
systems and lists and chore wheels, but
the reality is, you probably need somebody
to follow you around with a shovel. Since
you two were happy when you lived separately, the problem seems to be buying
into the idea that moving in together is a
step forward. For your relationship, the step
forward would be living apart so you can
go back to being lovingly amused at your
differences the way he sees the countertop as half-full and you see that there’s still
space for several pots and a week’s worth
of dirty plates.

COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
Robert (Feddy)
Feddersen,
age 88, died April 11,
2012. He was born in
Polson MT, and was a
resident of Green, Ohio.
Feddy is survived by his
wife Doris (Reynolds)
Feddersen, daughter Jan
Feddersen, step children
Lee Reynolds (Linda);
Ruth Cotter (David), and
seven grandchildren. In
lieu of flowers,
memorials may be made
to Greensburg Methodist
Church, P.O. Box 155,
Green OH, 44232. Please
visit the guest book at
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
By Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): On the one hand, you’re facing a sticky dilemma that you may
never be able to change no matter how hard you try. On the other hand, you are engaged with
an interesting challenge that may very well be possible to resolve. Do you know which is which?
Now would be an excellent time to make sure you do. It would be foolish to keep working on untying a
hopelessly twisted knot when there is another puzzle that will respond to your love and intelligence. Go
where you’re wanted.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): From an astrological perspective, it’s the New Year season; you’re
beginning a fresh cycle. How would you like to celebrate? You could make a few resolutions
maybe pledge to wean yourself from a wasteful habit or self-sabotaging vice. You could also invite the universe to show you what you don’t even realize you need to know. What might also be interesting
would be to compose a list of the good habits you will promise to cultivate, and the ingenious breakthroughs
you will work toward, and the shiny yet gritty dreams you will court and woo.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “My father-in-law was convinced that his sheepdogs picked up
his thoughts telepathically,” writes Richard Webster in his article “Psychic Animals.” “He needed
only to think what he wanted his dogs to do, and they would immediately do it. He had to be
careful not to think too far ahead, as his dogs would act on the thought he was thinking at the time.” To this
I’d add that there is a wealth of other anecdotal evidence, as well as some scientific research, suggesting
that dogs respond to unspoken commands. I happen to believe that the human animal is also capable of
picking up thoughts that aren’t said aloud. And I suspect that you’re in a phase when it will be especially important to take that into account. Be discerning about what you imagine, because it could end up in the
mind of someone you know!

a

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your right brain and left brain have rarely been on such close speaking
terms as they are right now. Your genitals and your heart seem to be in a good collaborative groove
as well. Even your past and your future are mostly in agreement about how you should proceed in
the present. To what do we owe the pleasure of this rather dramatic movement toward integration? Here’s one
theory: You’re being rewarded for the hard work you have done to take good care of yourself.

b

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A South African biologist was intrigued to discover an interesting fact
about the rodent known as the elephant shrew: It much prefers to slurp the nectar of pagoda lilies
than to nibble on peanut butter mixed with apples and rolled oats. The biologist didn’t investigate
whether mountain goats would rather eat grasses and rushes than ice cream sundaes or whether lions like freshkilled antelopes better than Caesar salad, but I’m pretty sure they do. In a related subject, Leo, I hope that in the
coming weeks you will seek to feed yourself exclusively with the images, sounds, stories, and food that truly
satisfy your primal hunger rather than the stuff that other people like or think you should like.

c

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There are only a very few people whose ancestors were not immigrants. They live in Africa, where homo sapiens got its start. As for the rest of us, our forbears
wandered away from their original home and spread out over the rest of the planet. We all came
from somewhere else! This is true on many other levels, as well. In accordance with the astrological omens,
I invite you Virgos to get in touch with your inner immigrant this week. It’s an excellent time to acknowledge
and celebrate the fact that you are nowhere near where you started from, whether you gauge that psychologically, spiritually, or literally.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “When I’m good, I’m very good,” said Hollywood’s original siren,
Mae West, “but when I’m bad I’m better.” I think that assertion might at times make sense coming
out of your lips in the next two weeks. But I’d like to offer a variation that could also serve you
well. It’s articulated by my reader Sarah Edelman, who says, “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m
batty, I’m better.” Consider trying out both of these attitudes, Libra, as you navigate your way through the
mysterious and sometimes unruly fun that’s headed your way.

e

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Weekly World News, my favorite source of fake news, reported on a major development in the art world: An archaeologist found the lost arms of the famous Venus de Milo statue. They were languishing in a cellar in Southern Croatia. Hallelujah!
Since her discovery in 1820, the goddess of love and beauty has been incomplete. Will the Louvre Museum
in Paris, where she is displayed, allow her to be joined by her original appendages and made whole again?
Let’s not concern ourselves now with that question. Instead, please turn your attention to a more immediate
concern: the strong possibility that you will soon experience a comparable development, the rediscovery of
and reunification with a missing part of you.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Seventeenth-century physicians sometimes advised their patients to consume tobacco as a way to alleviate a number of different maladies, from toothaches to
arthritis. A few doctors continued recommending cigarettes as health aids into the 1950s. This bit of
history may be useful to keep in mind, Sagittarius. You’re in a phase when you’re likely to have success in hunting
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on conventional wisdom, just in case some of it resembles the idea that cigarettes are good for you. And always
double check to make sure that the cures aren’t worse than what they are supposed to fix.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Outer space isn’t really that far away. As astronomer Fred Hoyle
used to say, you’d get there in an hour if you could drive a car straight up. I think there’s a comparable situation in your own life, Capricorn. You’ve got an inflated notion of how distant a certain
goal is, and that’s inhibiting you from getting totally serious about achieving it. I’m not saying that the destination would be a breeze to get to. My point is that it’s closer than it seems.

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goats, camels, yaks, mares, llamas, and reindeer. And many grocery stores now stock milk made
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initiate a comparable diversification, Aquarius. You shouldn’t necessarily give up the primal sources of nourishment you have been depending on. Just consider the possibility that it might be fun and healthy for you
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You wouldn’t want to play a game of darts with an inflatable dartboard, right? If you were a smoker, you’d have little interest in a fireproof cigarette. And while a
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see if it has a built-in contradiction. Certain ideas being presented to you perhaps even arising from your
own subconscious mind may be inherently impractical to use in the real world.

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PUBLIC NOTICES
CITY OF MISSOULA
INVITATION TO BID Notice is
hereby given that sealed bids will
be received at the City Clerk’s
Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman
Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until
2:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 12th,
2012 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that
time. As soon thereafter as is
possible, a contract will be made
for the following: Purchase of
one Cemetery mower. Bidders
shall bid by City bid proposal
forms, addressed to the City
Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula,
enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the
outside, “Bid for Cemetery
mower., Closing, 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 12th, 2012”. Pursuant
to Section 18-1-102 Montana
Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing
preferences to resident Montana
vendors and \ or for products
made in Montana equal to the
preference provided in the state
of the competitor. Each and every
bid must be accompanied by
cash, a certified check, bid bond,
cashier’s check, bank money
order or bank draft payable to the
City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a
national banking association located in the State of Montana or
by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the
State of Montana for an amount
which shall not be less than ten
percent (10%) of the bid, as a
good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm
as is noted on the bid proposal
forms. No bid will be considered
which includes Federal excise
tax, since the City is exempt there
from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the
right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid
specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as
an exception to the specifications.
Vendors requesting inclusion or
pre-approved alternatives to any
of these bid specifications must
receive written authorization
from the Vehicle Maintenance
Superintendent a minimum of
five (5) working days prior to the
bid closing. The City reserves the
right to reject any and all bids and
if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new
specifications, or to make such an
award as in the judgment of its
officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the
right to waive any technicality in
the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to
published specifications must be
filed in written form with the City
Clerk prior to bid opening at 2:00
p.m., Tuesday, June 12th, 2012.
Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from
the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 552-6387. Bid announcements and bid results are
posted on the City’s website at
www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/
Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk
CITY OF MISSOULA
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council
will hold a public hearing on May
7, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City
Council Chambers, 140 West
Pine, Missoula, Montana, on the
following: A resolution fixing the
annual appropriations and the
capital improvement program for
the City of Missoula as set forth
in the fiscal year 2013 budget.
The Tourism Business Improvement District work plan and
budget for fiscal year 2013. The
Business Improvement District
work plan and budget for fiscal

year 2013. The Park District
Number 1 work plan and budget
for fiscal year 2013. The Road
District Number 1 work plan and
budget for fiscal year 2013. The
Council has completed the City’s
preliminary annual budget for fiscal year 2013. A copy of the
budget is on file and is open to inspection on the City website at:
www.ci.missoula.mt.us or contact
the Finance Office. For further
information, contact Brentt
Ramharter, Finance Director at
552-6108. The City Council will
keep this public hearing on the
agenda continue to take public
comments at each City Council
meeting until the final budget is
approved (tentatively slated for
June.) Any taxpayer or resident
may appear at the meeting and be
heard for or against any part of
the proposed budget. If you have
comments, please mail them to:
City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or e-mail City
Council at council@ci.missoula.mt.us. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk
CITY OF MISSOULA
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council
will hold a public hearing on May
7, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City
Council Chambers, 140 West
Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider the following increases to
fees: 1. An ordinance amending
portions of Missoula Municipal
Code increasing fees by four percent (4%) in Chapter 8.40 entitled
“Hazardous Vegetation and Nuisance Weeds”, Chapter 12.04 entitled “Street Vacation”, Chapter
12.12 entitled “Curbs, Sidewalks,
and Paving”, Chapter 12.14 entitled “Right-of-Way Occupancy
Permit”, Chapter 12.16 entitled
“Sidewalk Maintenance”, Chapter 12.24 entitled “Excavations”,
Chapter 12.30 entitled “Fences”,
Chapter 13.07 entitled “Wastewater Pretreatment Regulations”,
Chapter 15.38 entitled “Accessibility Standards”, Chapter 15.65
entitled “Grading, Drainage, Erosion Control and Storm Water
Pollution
Prevention
Plan
(SWPPP.)” 2. An ordinance
amending title 5, Missoula Municipal Code, entitled “Business
Licenses and Regulations” Chapter 5.08 entitled “Licensing Provisions Generally”, Chapter 5.20
entitled “Junk Dealers”, Chapter
5.24 entitled “Pawnbrokers,”
Chapter 5.28 entitled “Secondhand Dealers,” Chapter 5.40 entitled “Boiler-room Operations,”
Chapter 5.52 entitled “Liquor,”
amending each chapter’s section
pertaining to fees to increase the
fees by four percent (4%) in accordance with the results of an official
2010
fee
study
commissioned by the city of Missoula. 3. An ordinance amending
Chapter 8.50 Missoula Municipal
Code, entitled “Fire Inspection
Fees” section 8.50.010 entitled
“Establishment of Fees” and
Chapter 8.52 entitled “Fireworks”, Section 8.52.020 Entitled
“Manufacture in City Prohibited—Permit For Sale or Discharge” increasing the fees by
four percent (4%) in accordance
with the results of an official
2010 fee study commissioned by
the city of Missoula. 4. A resolution increasing fees for the Missoula City Cemetery. 5. A
resolution increasing fees for
services related to the review and
processing land use applications
pursuant to City adopted regulations pertaining to zoning, subdivision and floodplain services
based on the 2010 cost of services
study. 6. An ordinance amending
Chapter 12.58 Missoula Municipal Code Section 12.58.035 entitled “Special Event Permit-Fee”
to increase the fee for holding

special events by four percent
(4%) in accordance with the results of an official 2010 fee study
commissioned by the city of Missoula. For further information,
contact Brentt Ramharter, Finance Director at 552-6108. If
you have comments, please email them to the City Council at
council@ci.missoula.mt.us or
mail them to: City Council, c/o
City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L.
Rehbein, CMC City Clerk
CITY OF MISSOULA
Request For Qualifications Civil
Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Architectural Services
for Design and Construction Engineering and Administration of
Silver Park Phase IV in Missoula,
Montana. The City of Missoula
Redevelopment Agency (MRA)
is seeking professional civil engineering, landscape architecture,
architectural, and other services
for the design and construction of
Phase IV of Silver Park which is
located west of the Missoula
Civic Stadium along the south
shore of the Clark Fork River in
Missoula Montana. The scope of
work will include, but is not limited to: design and engineering of
drainage and grading, irrigation,
landscaping, pedestrian trails and
lighting, specification of all plant
material, furniture, and fixtures
including any official approvals
and placement design. Services
shall also include design and construction engineering of a southward extension of the existing
parking lot along the east side of
the Park. Architectural design and
construction oversight services
will be for the design Park entry
features, a public plaza, and related small structures such as
restrooms and picnic shelters.
MRA is most interested in Respondent teams who are led by
the firm or division within a firm
that would perform the on-site
construction engineering and
contract administration services.
Responses are due Monday May
21, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. delivered
to MRA at 140 West Pine Street,
Missoula, MT 59802. Late proposals will not be accepted. A
copy of the Request for Qualifications and other material discussed in the RFQ is available
on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids and by contacting the Chris Behan at the
Missoula Redevelopment Agency
406-552-6155 or cbehan@ci.missoula.mt.us.
MISSOULA COUNTY
INVITATION FOR BIDS FOR
IMPROVEMENTS TO MISSOULA
INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT
MISSOULA
COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY MISSOULA, MONTANA
Sealed bids for the improvements
to Missoula International Airport,
5225 Highway 10 West, Missoula, Montana, will be received
at the Office of the Missoula
County Airport Authority in the
Conference Room until 1:00 p.m.
local time on May 22, 2012 and
then opened and read aloud, and
canvassed. The work includes the
following: Schedule I Rental Car
Parking Lot Overlay Including
Grading, Drainage, Paving,
Marking, Schedule II Frontage
road overlay by car wash bay exit
A complete set of Plans, Specifications and Contract Documents
may be obtained on or after April
19, 2012 at the Airport Administration Office, located on the second floor of the Terminal
Building, Missoula International
Airport, Missoula, Montana.
Each bid must be accompanied
by a Certified Check or Cashiers
Check in the amount of not less
than five percent of the total bid,

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made payable to Missoula
County Airport Authority, or by a
bid bond in like amount executed
by a Surety Company. The Bidder
must supply all the information
required by the proposal forms
and specifications, and must bid
on all items. The Missoula
County Airport Authority reserves the right to waive any informality or to reject any or all
portions of the various bid items.
No proposal may be withdrawn
for a period of 60 days form the
opening thereof. All bidders are
advised to examine the site to become familiar with all site conditions. The project will be shown
to interested bidders at 1:00 pm
local time, on April 25, 2012 at
the conference room, Missoula
International Airport, 5225 Hwy
10 West, Missoula, MT 59808.
Minimum wage rates, as established by the State of Montana,
are applicable to this project. Any
questions regarding bids are to be
directed to Dennis Chudy 406728-4381.
MISSOULA COUNTY
Missoula County Request for
Qualifications Engineering &
Planning Services Missoula
County is seeking statements of
qualifications to pre-qualify firms
offering engineering & planning
services to determine the feasibility of a non-motorized connection
between the present terminus of
the Bitterroot Branch Trail in
Missoula and the northern terminus of the US Highway 93 South
pathway in Lolo using existing
public right-of-way. Responses to
the RFQ will be accepted until
4:00 PM, MDT on Monday, May
14, 2012 as addressed in the
RFQ. Submittals should be addressed to: Jeff Seaton, Missoula
County Public Works, 6089
Training Drive, Missoula, MT
59808, Re: RFQ Lolo-Missoula
Feasibility Study. The Request
for Qualifications – Engineering
& Planning Services for Missoula
County – Lolo-Missoula Feasibility Study may be obtained at the
offices of Missoula County Public Works, 6089 Training Drive,
Missoula, MT 59808, by calling
406 258-4816, or by email from
jseaton@co.missoula.mt.us Presubmittal questions regarding the
RFQ will be accepted until 5 p.m.
on April 30, 2012 in either writing or via email. Missoula
County will issue a response to
all questions received on May 4,
2012. Missoula County reserves
the right to reject any or all submissions, to waive any and all irregularities or informalities, and
to determine what constitutes any
and all irregularities and informalities.
MISSOULA COUNTY
NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that
sealed proposals will be received
at the PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00
o’clock a.m. Monday, May 7
2012 at which time the bids will
be opened and read in the conference room, Missoula County
Public Works, for the purpose of
purchasing of six-thousand four
hundred (6,400) tons of 3/4” Asphaltic Plant Mix produced
within 20 miles of Seeley Lake,
Montana and four-thousand
(4,000) tons of 3/4” Asphaltic
Plant Mix produced within the
Missoula metropolitan area for a
total of ten-thousand four hundred (10,400) tons total. Bid
packages for this purchase can be
obtained at the Public Works Division, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. All materials
shall meet minimum specifications set forth for 3/4” Asphaltic
Plant Mix in the Missoula County

Public Works Manual, available
at: http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/
mcbcc/importmins/2010/Mar03_
10/PublicWorksManual.pdf Proposals must be accompanied by
security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the
bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the
required contract and in the form
specified in MCA 18-1-203, for
example: Cash, cashier’s check,
certified check, bank money
order, or bank draft, any of which
must be drawn and issued by a
national banking association located in the state of Montana or a
banking association incorporated
under the Laws of Montana; or a
bid bond or bond executed by a
surety corporation authorized to
do business in the state of Montana. THE CONTRACT WILL
BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID
PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH
ALL THE REQUIREMENTS.
The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County,
Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals
shall be sealed and marked “Proposal for Asphaltic Plant Mix #2
– 2012” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works 2011
Asphaltic Plant Mix Bid 6089
Training Drive Missoula, MT
59808
MISSOULA COUNTY
Notice is hereby given that regular* registration for the Federal
Primary Election to be held on
June 5, 2012, will close at 5:00
p.m., on May 7, 2012. NOTE: If
you miss this regular registration
deadline, you may still register
for the election by showing up at
the county fairground’s election
center up to and including on
Election Day. Between noon and
the close of business on the day
before Election Day, you can
complete and submit a voter registration card, but you will need
to return to the local election center on Election Day to pick up
and vote a ballot. All active and
inactive electors of Missoula
County are entitled to vote at said
election. Persons who wish to
register and who are not presently
registered may do so by requesting a form for registration by mail
or by appearing before the
County Election Administrator.
If you have moved, please have
your registration transferred to
your present address. DATED
this 19th day of March 2012. /s/
Vickie M. Zeier Missoula County
Election Administrator
MISSOULA COUNTY
NOTICE
OF
ELECTION
EQUIPMENT TESTING A test
of the ES&S 650 Ballot Counters
that will be used to tabulate ballots on Election Day will be starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday,
May 3, 2012, at the Fairground’s
Marsda Building, 1101 South Ave
W, Missoula, Montana. Following this, a test of the ES&S AutoMARK ballot-marking system
and the ES&S M100 Precinct
Counters will be held at the Missoula County Record’s Center at
2147 Ernest Ave, Missoula, Montana. All tests are open to the public. /s/ Vickie Zeier Election
Administrator Missoula County
By /s/ Debbe Merseal, Chief
Deputy Clerk & Recorder
MISSOULA COUNTY
PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula
Consolidated Planning Board will
conduct a public hearing on the
following item on Tuesday, May
15, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in
Missoula, Montana. Proposed
Text amendments to Chapter

20.80 Nonconformities and
Chapter 20.110 Measurements
and Exceptions of the Missoula
City Zoning Ordinance - Title 20.
As directed by the Missoula City
Council, the Missoula Office of
Planning and Grants has developed proposed text amendments
to Chapter 20.80 Non-conformities and Chapter 20.110 Measurements and Exceptions addressing
revisions to facilitate maintenance and alteration options for
non-conforming structures and
non-conforming uses. The resultant proposed amendments would
allow residential one and twounit non-conforming structures to
be expanded horizontally and
vertically within limitations without increasing their nonconformity, clarify the ability to expand
one and two-unit residential nonconforming uses and extend the
abandonment time limit for nonconforming uses and structures.
The City Council will conduct a
public hearing on this item at a
time to be determined. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The
project files are available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City
Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula,
Montana. Telephone 258-4657,
or on the web at, www.co.missoula.mt.us/opgweb. If anyone
attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48
hours advance notice by calling
258-4657. The City of Missoula
will provide auxiliary aids and
services.
MISSOULA COUNTY
VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, HEREBY NOTIFIES
MISSOULA COUNTY TAX
PAYERS THAT THE SECOND
HALF OF 2011 REAL ESTATE
TAXES & THE FIRST HALF
2012 MOBILE HOME TAXES
LEVIED AND ASSESSED
WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE
BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON MAY 31,
2012. UNLESS THESE TAXES
ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT
TIME, THE AMOUNT THEN
DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT,
WILL ACCRUE INTEREST AT
THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER
MONTH AND WILL BE ASSESSED A 2% PENALTY
FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID. IF YOU
INTEND TO PROTEST YOUR
TAXES, YOU MUST MAKE
PAYMENT BY THE DUE DATE
AND MUST INCLUDE A LETTER OF PROTEST WITH
YOUR PAYMENT. THE LETTER OF PROTEST MUST INCLUDE
YOUR
NAME,
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION,
GROUNDS FOR PROTEST
AND THE AMOUNT YOU ARE
PROTESTING PURSUANT TO
MCA § 15-1-402. /s/ VICKIE M.
ZEIER MISSOULA COUNTY
TREASURER
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Cause No. DR-12-252 Department No. 1 SUMMONS FOR
PUBLICATION IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF PEGGY SCHARBERG
GOODSELL, PETITIONER AND
LEWIS ALLEN GOODSELL, RESPONDENT. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE
ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT:
YOU, THE RESPONDENT, ARE
HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the
Petition in this action, which is filed in
the office of the Clerk of this Court, a
copy of which is herewith served upon
you, and to file your answer and serve
a copy of your answer upon the Petitioner within twenty days after the
service of the Summons, exclusive of
the day of service. If you fail to appear
or answer, judgment will be taken
against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is
brought to obtain a dissolution of marriage. DATED this 26th day of April,
2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust,

Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Sheila
M. Hann, Deputy Clerk
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-441 Department No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps,
III NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE IN THE
MATTER OF THE NAME CHANGE
OF, GEORGE YALMAR LEHNEN.
Please take note that George Yalmar
Lehnen has petitioned the District
Court in the Fourth Judicial District for
a change of name from George Yalmar
Lehnen to Yalmar Tony Lehnen, and
the petition for name change will be
heard by a District Judge on the 29th
day of May, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock
a.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway,
Missoula, MT in courtroom number 2
South. At any time before the hearing,
objections may be filed by any person
who can demonstrate good reasons
against the change of name. Dated this
17th day of April, 2012. (SEAL) /s/
Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/
Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk of
Court
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Cause No.: DP-11-199
Dept. No.: 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: COLTON PETERSON,
Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN that the undersigned has been
appointed Personal Representative of
the above-named estate. All persons
having claims against the decedent are
required to present their claims within
four months after the date of the first
publication of this notice or said claims
will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Juliena Darling, Personal Representative, return receipt
requested, at c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci &
Rhoades, P.C., 1821 South Avenue
West, Third Floor, Missoula, MT
59801, or filed with the Clerk of the
above Court. DATED this 23rd day of
April, 2012. /s/ Juliena Darling, Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Cause No.: DP-12-69 Dept.
No.: 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF:
DONALD JACK GALAHAN Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of
the above-named estate. All persons
having claims against the decedent are
required to present their claims within
four months after the date of the first
publication of this notice or said claims
will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Walter Galahan and
Sean Galahan, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at
c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades,
P.C., 1821 South Avenue West, Third
Floor, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed
with the Clerk of the above Court.
DATED this 3rd day of April, 2012. /s/
Walter Galahan, Personal Representative /s/ Sean Galahan, Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause
Probate No. DP-12-53 NOTICE TO
CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF
THE ESTATE OF BONNIE R.
HAMILTON, Deceased. NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned
have been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.
All persons having claims against the
said deceased are required to present
their claims within four months after
the date of the first publication of this
notice or said claims will be forever
barred. Claims must either be mailed to
Charles H. Hamilton, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at
GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210
North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the
Clerk of the above-entitled Court.
DATED: March 19, 2012. /s/ Charles
H. Hamilton, Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause
Probate No. DP-11-184 NOTICE TO
CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF
THE ESTATE OF MARY ELLEN
SAMPSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned
have been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.
All persons having claims against the
said deceased are required to present
their claims within four months after
the date of the first publication of this
notice or said claims will be forever

PUBLIC NOTICES
barred. Claims must either be mailed to
Alfred J. Sampson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at
GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210
North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the
Clerk of the above-entitled Court.
DATED: December 30, 2011. /s/ Alfred
J. Sampson, Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP12-77 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
JEROME HARRIS MCCANN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the
above-named estate. All persons having
claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within
four months after the date of the first
publication of this notice or said claims
will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michael J. McCann,
Personal Representative, return receipt
requested at PO Box 733, Philipsburg,
MT 59858 or filled with the Clerk of
the above-entitled Court. DATED this
19th day of April, 2012. /s/ Michael J.
McCann, Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP12-51 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
RE THE ESTATE OF BETTY M.
REYNOLDS, Deceased. NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that Gerald M. Morris has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.
All persons having claims against the
decedent are required to present their
claims within four months after the
date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever
barred. Claims must either be mailed to
Gerald M. Morris, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o
Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER &
FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana
59803 or filed with the Clerk of the
above Court. DATED this 30th day of
March,
2012.
GEISZLER
&
FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler,
Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury
and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 30th day of March,
2012 /s/ Gerald M. Morris, Personal
Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP12-67 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
RE THE ESTATE OF DAVID ALLEN
JENKINS, Deceased. NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned
has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All
persons having claims against the said
deceased are required to present their
claims within four (4) months after the
date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever
barred. Claims must either be mailed to
Valerie Kay Jenkins, Personal Representative, certified mail, return receipt
requested in care of Molly K. Howard,
Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C.,
201 West Main Street, Suite 201, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk
of the above court. DATED this 3rd day
of April, 2012. /s/ Molly K. Howard,
Attorney for Valerie Kay Jenkins, Personal Representative of the Estate of
David Allen Jenkins
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV12-416 NOTICE OF PENDING
NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER
OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE
OF NAME OF SONJA J. HARGROVE HEUTMAKER, Petitioner.
TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED
HEREIN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE
that a Petition for Name Change of
SONJA J. HARGOVE HEUTMAKER
to obtain an order of this Court granting
leave to assume the name of SONJA J.
HARGROVE, will be presented to the
above-entitled Court, at the Missoula
County Courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on Thursday the 31st day of May
at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as
counsel can be heard, and that at such
time, application will be made for the
relief sought in said Petition. DATED
this 20th day of April, 2012. WELLS &
MCKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Torian Donohoe for EVONNE SMITH WELLS, Attorneys for Petitioner
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV12-199 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. MARK FRASCA and CHRIS

McQUAIDE, Personal Representative
of the Estate of Wendy McQuaide,
a/k/a Wendy A. Frasca, Plaintiffs, v.
DOUBLE ARROW RANCH ASSOCIATION, LTD., BROOKS E. LINGO
and SHIRLEY A. LINGO. COLIN
JOHNSON, HOWARD AUSTIN,
AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS,
UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL
OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN,
CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT
CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN
OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE
REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN
THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO
PLAINTIFFS/ OWNERSHIP OR ANY
CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE
THERETO,
WHETHER
SUCH
CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE
PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA
TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS:
You are
hereby SUMMONED to answer the
Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action
which is filed with the above-named
Court, a copy of which is served upon
you, and to file your written answer
with the Court and serve a copy thereof
upon Plaintiffs’ attorney within twentyone (21) days after the service of this
SUMMONS, or such other period as
may be specified by law, exclusive of
the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment
against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee
must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of foreclosing the following-described real
properties located in Missoula County,
Montana: Lot 38 of the Amended Plat
of Trail Creek Addition or Phase VI of
the Double Arrow Ranch, Missoula
County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof, recorded in Book 12
of Plats, Page 54 records of Missoula
County, Montana. Dated this 17th day
of April, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust,
Clerk of Court By: Sheila M. Hann,
Deputy Clerk
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP12-64 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
AARON C. BOLTON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal
Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against
the said estate are required to present
their claim within four (4) months after
the date of the first publication of this
notice or said claims will be forever
barred. Claims must either be mailed to
Randy Bolton, return receipt requested,
c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747,
Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the
Clerk of the above-entitled Court.
DATED this 29th day of March, 2012.
/s/ Randy Bolton, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys
for Personal Representative /s/ William
E. McCarthy
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP12-76 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
MINNIE M. DEAN Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed
Co-Personal Representatives of the
above-named estate. All persons having
claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within
four (4) months after the date of the
first publication of this notice or said
claims will be forever barred. Claims
must either be mailed to Sharon Lee
Hamilton and James A. Dean, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC,
PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or
filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of
April, 2012. /s/ Sharon Lee Hamilton,
Co-Personal Representative /s/ James
A. Dean, Co-Personal Representative.
WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for
Co-Personal Representatives /s/ Gail
M. Haviland
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Probate No. DP-12-72 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter
of the Estate of MONTE L. MEANS,
Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN that the undersigned has been
appointed personal representative of
the above-named estate. All persons
having claims against the said deceased
are required to present their claims
without four (4) months after the date
of the first publication of this notice or
said claims will be forever barred.
Claims must either be mailed by ordi-

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s
nary first class mail, postage prepaid to
R.H. Prigge, the attorney for the estate,
at P.O. Box 1457, Billings, Montana
59103, or filed with the Clerk of the
above-entitled Court. DATED April 19,
2012. /s/ Marian A. Rudolf, Personal
Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Probate No. DP-12-79 Dept.
No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO
CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF
John L. Heron, III, Deceased. NOTICE
IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal
Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against
the said estate are required to present
their claim within four (4) months after
the date of the first publication of this
notice or said claims will be forever
barred. Claims must either be mailed to
Claire M. Marques, return receipt requested, c/o Reep, Bell & Laird, P.C.,
2955 Stockyard Road, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of
the above-entitled Court. DATED this
19th day of April, 2012. /s/ Claire M.
Marques, Personal Representative./s/
Cory R. Laird, Attorneys for Personal
Representative
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PRIOR APPROVAL OF MERGER
OF BANKS AND TO ESTABLISH
BRANCH OFFICES Notice is hereby
given by Community Bank, Inc., 63239
US Highway 93, Ronan, MT that it intends to apply to the Federal Reserve
Board and the Montana Division of
Banking and Financial Institutions for
permission to merge with Community
Bank- Missoula, Inc., 3010 American
Way, Missoula, MT 59808. The Federal Reserve System considers a number of factors in deciding whether to
approve the application, including the
record of performance of the banks we
own in helping to meet local credit
needs. You are invited to submit comments in writing on this application, to
(1) the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, P.O. Box 291, Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55480-0291, or (2) Commissioner of Banking and Financial Institutions, P.O. Box 200546, Helena,
MT 59620. The comment period will
not end before May 16, 2012, and may
be somewhat longer. With respect to
the Montana Division of Banking and
Financial Institutions, processing of the
application will be completed no earlier
than the 15th day, nor generally later
than the 45th day following the date of
the last required publication. The Federal Reserve Board’s Policy Statement
regarding notice of applications may be
found at 12 C.F.R. 262. Procedures for
processing protested applications may
be found at 12 C.F.R 262.25. To obtain
a copy of the Federal Reserve Board’s
procedures, or if you need more information about how to submit your comments on the application, contact
Jacqueline G. King, Community Affairs Officer, at (612) 204-5470. The
Federal Reserve will consider your
comments and any request for a public
meeting or formal hearing on the application if they are received by the Reserve Bank on or before the last day of
the comment period. The nonconfidential portion of the application file is
available for inspection within one day
following the request for such file. It
may be inspected in the Montana Divi-

CLARK FORK
STORAGE
will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent
storage rent for the following unit(s):
164 + 235. Units can contain furniture,
cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools,
sports equipment, books, beds, other misc
household goods, vehicles & trailers.
These units may be viewed starting May
17th, 2012 by appt only by calling 5417919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork
Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to May
17th, 2012, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will
be for entire contents of each unit offered
in the sale. Only cash or money orders
will be accepted for payment. Units are
reserved subject to redemption by owner
prior to sale. All Sales final.

Public Notice
Farwest Rock Products,
PO Box 991, Frenchtown, MT 59834, 406728-8500, has applied for
an open cut mining permit to create a new site
called FWRP Pit. The site
is located in Section 6,
7T, 14N, R20W. Site one
will encompass 5.4 acres
and site two 16.6 acres to
be mined at a later date.
Removal of 1,000,000 cy
yards of aggregate material. There will be a
crushing operation on site
while will operate during

the months of March
through November and
work approximately 7
days a week, from 7:00
a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The site
is located about 3 miles
from the intersection of
Highway 93 and Waldo
Lane (also known as
Frenchtown
Frontage
Road.) The physical address will be 13272
Frontage Road which
will be the access point to
the pit. Any requests for a
public meeting concerning this proposed activity
should be directed to the
DEQ Open Cut Mining
Program,
PO
Box
200901, Helena, MT
59602; Fax 406-4444988; Email DEQOpencut@mt.gov;
Phone
4 0 6 - 4 4 4 - 4 9 7 0

NOTICE OF
PUBLIC HEARING
THE MISSOULA CITY
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
will be conducting a public
hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 23, 2012, Missoula
City Council Chambers, 140
W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on
the following items:
1.A request by Nancy
Wohlfeil for a rear yard and
density variance to have a
second dwelling unit on a
property located at 352
Burlington in the R5.4 zoning district. SEE MAP F.

2.A request by Talbert Demeester for two variances to
convert a mixed use building
to a vertical mixed use building to increase the number of
residential units within the
building for a property located at 825 W. Spruce in the
M1R-2 zoning district. SEE
MAP E.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance,
please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula
Office of Planning & Grants
at 258-4657.
Missoula
County will provide auxiliary
aids and services. For additional information regarding
the variance request you may
contact Hilary Schoendorf at
the 258-3869 or email
hschoendorf@co.missoula.m
t.us.

Notice of Polling Place Locations, Accessibility Designations,
Voting System Exhibition, Diagrams and Voting Instructions
Statement of the Location of Mail Ballot Drop Off Locations and Accessibility Designations for the May 8, 2012,
School/Special District Election: The polling place will be open for voting from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

SAMPLE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO VOTE ON AN M-100 PRECINCT COUNTER VOTING SYSTEM

Notice of Voting System Exhibition, Diagram
and Voting Instructions:
Please note that the county’s voting systems are on public exhibition at Missoula
County Election Office. Please see diagrams of the voting system(s) and ballot arrangement and instructions on voting below.
SAMPLE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO VOTE ON AN AUTOMARK VOTING SYSTEM
The AutoMARK is a ballot-marking system that will be in use during the upcoming election. Its main purpose is to allow voters with disabilities and other special needs to
mark a ballot privately and independently.
If you wish to vote on the AutoMARK, please inform the election judge at your polling
place that you would like to do so. The election judge will give you a ballot (with the stub
removed) that will go in the machine. After the system accepts the ballot, the system will
provide instructions on how to vote the ballot. In
order to make the ballot easier to read, you can
change the contrast and font size. You can mark
your choices by touching the screen or by using
the keypad, which features written and Braille
markings.
The AutoMARK system will confirm your selections on the screen and by audio. After you verify that your selections are correct, the system
will fill in your choices on the ballot and print
the ballot. The ballot will then go to an election
judge for depositing in the ballot box. If you
need assistance at any time during the process,
simply request it.

Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C8 May 3 – May 10, 2012

The following is a diagram for the M100 Precinct Ballot Counter that will be at each polling place.

TO VOTE:
1. To vote, you must blacken the oval completely.
SAMPLE
SECRETARY OF STATE
(Vote for One)
John Doe
Thomas Jefferson
Jane Q Public
VOTE BOTH SIDES – CHECK BALLOT TO SEE IF THERE ARE ISSUES PRINTED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE
BALLOT TO BE VOTED ON.

2. USE A #2 PENCIL OR BLACK INK TO MARK YOUR BALLOT. An Optical Scanner will count your ballot. If
you use any other type of pen, it may not be counted correctly by the Scanner.
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR BALLOT:
When marking your ballot you should NOT make an X or a check mark.
You should NOT cross out, erase, or use correction fluid on the ballot
and if you make an error, you should request a new ballot.
READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY! If you mark more candidates than
you are allowed to mark for that position, it is considered an overvote.
You may request a new ballot if you overvote in any race. If you do not
correct your ballot, that race will not count because of the overvote;
however, the remainder of your ballot will be counted.
After you mark the ballot, you will be directed to place the ballot in the M100 precinct counter, which will alert you to errors, if any, tabulate your
choices and then deposit the ballot in the ballot box.

PUBLIC NOTICES
sion of Banking and Financial Institutions office during regular business
hours. Photocopies of information in
the nonconfidential portion of the application file will be made available
upon request. A schedule of charges
for such copies can be obtained from
the Montana Division of Banking and
Financial Institutions. Community
Bank, Inc. By: /s/ Gordon Zimmerman
Its: President
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER TRUST INDENTURE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on
Tuesday the 8th day of August, 2012,
at the hour of 10:00 o’clock a.m., on
the steps at the South door of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West
Broadway,
Missoula,
59801,
MATTHEW J. CUFFE, Attorney at
Law, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT,
Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy
the obligation set out below, has elected
to sell and will sell at public auction to
the highest bidder, for cash, payable at
the time of sale to said Successor
Trustee without warranty or covenant,
expressed or implied as to title, possession or encumbrances, the interest of
MATTHEW J. CUFFE, Successor
Trustee, and of the Grantor, SONDRA
LEE POWERS, in and to the following
described real property, situated in Missoula County, Montana, to wit: Tract
10A of Certificate of Survey No. 5974,
located in the NE 1/4 of Section 30,
Township 15 North, Range 21 West,
P.M.M., Missoula County Montana.
Said sale will be made in accordance
with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of a
certain Trust Indenture dated the 11th
day of January, 2011 and recorded the
13th day of January, 2011, at 3:25 p.m.,
in Book 872 at Page 713 Micro
Records, records of Missoula County,
Montana, wherein KAREN V.
ADAMS, is the named beneficiary. The
Grantor, SONDRA LEE POWERS has
defaulted in the terms of said Trust Indenture in that she has failed to make
the payment due under the January 11,
2011 note of Seventy-one Thousand
Four Hundred Seventy-four and 94/100
Dollars ($71,474.94) due February 15,
2012 plus interest of Nine Hundred
Twenty-eight and 20/100 Dollars
($928.20) through March 31, 2012 and
there is now due, owing and unpaid
payment in the total sum of Seventytwo Thousand Four Hundred Three and
14/100 Dollars ($72,403.14), plus an
escrow close out fee in the amount of
Seventy-five and 00/100 Dollars
($75.00). That the principal sum now
owing on the obligation secured by said
Trust Indenture is the sum of Seventyone Thousand Four Hundred Seventyfour and 94/100 Dollars ($71,474.94),
together with interest at the rate of Six
percent (6.0%) per annum from and
after the 12th day of January, 2012 until
the date of sale. That on the date of sale
there will be due and owing the sum of
Seventy-one Thousand Four Hundred
Seventy-four and 94/100 Dollars
($71,474.94) in principal; and Two
Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-five and
61/100 Dollars ($2,455.61) in interest;
and Seventy-five and No/100 Dollars
($75.00) in an escrow closing out fee,
equaling the total sum of Seventy-four
Thousand Five and 55/100 Dollars
($74,005.55), together with costs and
expenses of foreclosure, including attorney fees, appraisal fees, costs of title
insurance and other costs and expenses.
DATED this 29th day of March, 2012.
/s/ Matthew J. Cuffe STATE OF MONTANA) : ss. County of Missoula). On
this 29th day of March, 2012 before
me, the undersigned a Notary Public
for the State of Montana, personally appeared Matthew J. Cuffe, Attorney at
Law, known to me to be the person
whose name is subscribed to the within
Notice of Sale of Real Property under
Trust Indenture as Successor Trustee,
and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor
Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and notarial
seal the day and year first above written. /s/ Barbara R. Hartzell Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at
Stevensville, MT My commission expires: 7/3/2015
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain
trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of
Trust”) dated 11/30/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631097, Bk. 788, Pg.
366, mortgage records of Missoula
County, Montana in which Matthew M.
Miller and Rebecca L. Miller was
Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was
Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title
Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow as Successor
Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers

real property (“Property”) located in
Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of
Kalberg Estates, a platted subdivision
in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.
By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201200002, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned
to U.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee for Structured Asset Securities
Corporation Mortgage Loan Trust
2007-WF1. Beneficiary has declared
the Grantor in default of the terms of
the Deed of Trust and the promissory
note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of
Trust because of Grantor’s failure
timely to pay all monthly installments
of principal, interest and, if applicable,
escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed
of Trust. According to the Beneficiary,
the obligation evidenced by the Note
(“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/08
installment payment and all monthly
installment payments due thereafter. As
of March 6, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was
$531,791.70. This amount includes the
outstanding principal balance of
$365,584.06, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if
any) and advances for the protection of
beneficiary’s security interest (if any).
Because of the defaults stated above,
Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed
Successor
Trustee
to
commence sale proceedings. Successor
Trustee will sell the Property at public
auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West
Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City
of Missoula on July 18, 2012 at 11:00
AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor
Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid
price must be paid immediately upon
the close of bidding at the sale location
in cash or cash equivalents (valid
money orders, certified checks or
cashier’s checks). The conveyance will
be made by trustee’s deed without any
representation or warranty, express or
implied, as the sale is made strictly on
an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any
other person having an interest in the
Property may, at any time prior to the
trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the
entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses
actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion
of the principal as would not then be
due had no default occurred. Tender of
these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary
defaults are also cured) and shall result
in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure
sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may
be
accessed
at
www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may
also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com
or
USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.17612)
1002.99556-File
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain
trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of
Trust”) dated 04/23/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200909814 B: 838 P:
451, mortgage records of Missoula
County, Montana in which Kenneth E.
Brown, a single person and Joshua A.
Altmiller, a single person was Grantor,
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp.
was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance
Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor
Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers
real property (“Property”) located in
Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 30
of West Pointe, Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana,
according to the official recorded plat
thereof. Beneficiary has declared the
Grantor in default of the terms of the
Deed of Trust and the promissory note
(“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust
because of Grantor’s failure timely to
pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow
reserves for taxes and/or insurance as
required by the Note and Deed of Trust.
According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”)
is now due for the 10/01/11 installment
payment and all monthly installment
payments due thereafter. As of March
2, 2012, the amount necessary to fully
satisfy the Loan was $311,009.73. This
amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $301,195.47, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges,
accrued escrow installments for insur-

ance and/or taxes (if any) and advances
for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has
elected to sell the Property to satisfy
the Loan and has instructed Successor
Trustee to commence sale proceedings.
Successor Trustee will sell the Property
at public auction on the front steps of
the Missoula County Courthouse, 200
West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802,
City of Missoula on July 16, 2012 at
11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is
a public sale and any person, including
Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid
price must be paid immediately upon
the close of bidding at the sale location
in cash or cash equivalents (valid
money orders, certified checks or
cashier’s checks). The conveyance will
be made by trustee’s deed without any
representation or warranty, express or
implied, as the sale is made strictly on
an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any
other person having an interest in the
Property may, at any time prior to the
trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the
entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses
actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion
of the principal as would not then be
due had no default occurred. Tender of
these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary
defaults are also cured) and shall result
in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure
sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may
be
accessed
at
www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may
also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com
or
USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.99200)
1002.210963-File
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain
trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of
Trust”) dated 03/07/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200804918, Book 814 Pg
483, mortgage records of Missoula
County, Montana in which Michelle L.
Roy and Matthew Tye Roy was
Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee
for Western Security Bank was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was
Trustee. First American Title Insurance
Company has succeeded Insured Titles,
LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of
Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County,
Montana, more particularly described
as follows: Lot 23 of Lolo Creek Trails
Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to
the official recorded plat thereof. Commonly known as: 11483 Stella Blue
Drive, Lolo, MT 59847. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No.
201120167, beneficial interest in the
Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells
Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the
terms of the Deed of Trust and the
promissory note (“Note”) secured by
the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s
failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if
applicable, escrow reserves for taxes
and/or insurance as required by the
Note and Deed of Trust. According to
the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now
due for the 08/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 7,
2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $264,839.59. This
amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $251,067.47, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges,
accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances
for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has
elected to sell the Property to satisfy
the Loan and has instructed Successor
Trustee to commence sale proceedings.
Successor Trustee will sell the Property
at public auction on the front steps of
the Missoula County Courthouse, 200
West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802,
City of Missoula on July 18, 2012 at
11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is
a public sale and any person, including
Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid
price must be paid immediately upon
the close of bidding at the sale location
in cash or cash equivalents (valid
money orders, certified checks or
cashier’s checks). The conveyance will
be made by trustee’s deed without any
representation or warranty, express or
implied, as the sale is made strictly on
an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any

other person having an interest in the
Property may, at any time prior to the
trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the
entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses
actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion
of the principal as would not then be
due had no default occurred. Tender of
these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary
defaults are also cured) and shall result
in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure
sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may
be
accessed
at
www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may
also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com
or
USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.97610)
1002.211057-File
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain
trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of
Trust”) dated 04/24/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200709948 Bk 795 Pg
1643, mortgage records of Missoula
County, Montana in which Michele
Nault-Richter and Von Richter as joint
tenants was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary
and First American Title Company was
Trustee. First American Title Insurance
Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor
Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers
real property (“Property”) located in
Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 14
of River Pine Addition-Phase 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County,
Montana, according to the official
recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has
declared the Grantor in default of the
terms of the Deed of Trust and the
promissory note (“Note”) secured by
the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s
failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if
applicable, escrow reserves for taxes
and/or insurance as required by the
Note and Deed of Trust. According to
the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now
due for the 09/28/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 6,
2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $84,560.79. This
amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $79,426.50, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges,
accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances
for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has
elected to sell the Property to satisfy
the Loan and has instructed Successor
Trustee to commence sale proceedings.
Successor Trustee will sell the Property
at public auction on the front steps of
the Missoula County Courthouse, 200
West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802,
City of Missoula on July 18, 2012 at
11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is
a public sale and any person, including
Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid
price must be paid immediately upon
the close of bidding at the sale location
in cash or cash equivalents (valid
money orders, certified checks or
cashier’s checks). The conveyance will
be made by trustee’s deed without any
representation or warranty, express or
implied, as the sale is made strictly on
an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any
other person having an interest in the
Property may, at any time prior to the
trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the
entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses
actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion
of the principal as would not then be
due had no default occurred. Tender of
these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary
defaults are also cured) and shall result
in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure
sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may
be
accessed
at
www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may
also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com
or
USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.17742)
1002.211075-File
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO
BE
SOLD
FOR
CASH AT
TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 11, 2012,
at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West
Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated
in Missoula County, Montana: A

TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN
SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 15
NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M.,
MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA,
BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5236 Amber
Armitage and Erik Armitage, as
Grantor(s), conveyed said real property
to First American Title Co. of MT, Inc.,
as Trustee, to secure an obligation
owed to Montana First Credit Union, as
Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated
May 22, 2007 and Recorded May 29,
2007 in Book 798, Page 184 under
Document Number 200713098. The
beneficial interest is currently held by
PHH Mortgage Corporation. First
American Title Company of Montana,
Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant
to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in
the office of the Clerk and Recorder of
Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the
terms of said Deed of Trust by failing
to make the monthly payments due in
the amount of $1,387.87, beginning
November 1, 2011, and each month
subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the
principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the
property or loan. The total amount due
on this obligation as of January 14,
2012 is $195,645.80 principal, interest
at the rate of 7.125% now totaling
$3,981.43, late charges in the amount
of $138.76, escrow advances of
$491.56, and other fees and expenses
advanced of $42.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.19 per diem,
late charges, and other costs and fees
that may be advanced. The Beneficiary
anticipates and may disburse such
amounts as may be required to preserve
and protect the property and for real
property taxes that may become due or
delinquent, unless such amounts of
taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such
amounts are paid by the Beneficiary,
the amounts or taxes will be added to
the obligations secured by the Deed of
Trust. Other expenses to be charged
against the proceeds of this sale include
the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees,
costs and expenses of the sale and late
charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected,
and has directed the Trustee to sell the
above described property to satisfy the
obligation. The sale is a public sale and
any person, including the beneficiary,
excepting only the Trustee, may bid at
the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in
cash or cash equivalents (valid money
orders, certified checks or cashier’s
checks). The conveyance will be made
by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the
sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is
being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or
other environmental or health hazards.
The sale purchaser shall be entitled to
possession of the property on the 10th
day following the sale. The grantor,
successor in interest to the grantor or
any other person having an interest in
the property, at any time prior to the
trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the
beneficiary the entire amount then due
under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs
and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion
of the principal as would not then be
due had no default occurred and
thereby cure the default. The scheduled
Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by
public proclamation up to 15 days for
any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days
by public proclamation at least every
30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO
COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 2, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez First
American Title Company of Montana,
Inc. Successor Trustee First American
Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.
County of Bingham ) On this 2nd day
of February, 2012, before me, a notary
public in and for said County and State,
personally appeared Dalia Martinez,
know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company
of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee,
known to me to be the person whose
name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that
he executed the same. /s/ Shannon
Gavin Notary Public Blackfoot, ID
Commission expires: 1/19/18 Phh V.
Armitage 41392.532
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO
BE
SOLD
FOR
CASH AT

TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 18, 2012,
at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West
Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated
in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT
29 OF BRIDGECOURT VILLAGE
PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA,
MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA,
ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL
RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Janet
Spagle and Richard Perez, as
Grantor(s), conveyed said real property
to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure
an obligation owed to National City
Mortgage a division of National City
Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust
dated on January 19, 2009 and recorded
on January 30, 2009 on Book 832 and
Page 919 as Document No. 200901888.
The beneficial interest is currently held
by PNC Bank, National Association
successor by merger to National City
Mortgage a division of National City
Bank. First American Title Company of
Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee
pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee
recorded in the office of the Clerk and
Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a
default in the terms of said Deed of
Trust by failing to make the monthly
payments due in the amount of
$1,002.58, beginning August 1, 2011,
and each month subsequent, which
monthly installments would have been
applied on the principal and interest
due on said obligation and other
charges against the property or loan.
The total amount due on this obligation
as of January 1, 2012 is $179,858.86
principal, interest at the rate of
5.00000% now totaling $4,496.46, late
charges in the amount of $251.17, escrow advances of $1,636.08 and other
fees and expenses advanced of
$244.32, plus accruing interest at the
rate of $24.63 per diem, late charges,
and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates
and may disburse such amounts as may
be required to preserve and protect the
property and for real property taxes that
may become due or delinquent, unless
such amounts of taxes are paid by the
Grantors. If such amounts are paid by
the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes
will be added to the obligations secured
by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to
be charged against the proceeds of this
sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the
sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the
Trustee to sell the above described
property to satisfy the obligation. The
sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only
the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid
price must be paid immediately upon
the close of bidding in cash or cash
equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The
conveyance will be made by Trustee’s
Deed without any representation or
warranty, including warranty of Title,
express or implied, as the sale is made
strictly on an as-is, where-is basis,
without limitation, the sale is being
made subject to all existing conditions,
if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale
purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor
in interest to the grantor or any other
person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s
sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the
successor in interest to the beneficiary
the entire amount then due under the
deed of trust and the obligation secured
thereby (including costs and expenses
actually incurred and attorney’s fees)
other than such portion of the principal
as would not then be due had no default
occurred and thereby cure the default.
The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be
postponed by public proclamation up to
15 days for any reason, and in the event
of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be
postponed by the trustee for up to 120
days by public proclamation at least
every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT
TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated:
February 9, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez
First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First
American Specialty Services P.O. Box
339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF
Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this
9th day of February, 2012, before me,
a notary public in and for said County
and State, personally appeared Dalia
Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title
Company of Montana, Inc., Successor
Trustee, known to me to be the person
whose name is subscribed to the fore-

going instrument and acknowledged to
me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti
A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID
Commission expires: 8/15/2012 PNC v
Spagle 41230.865
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO
BE
SOLD
FOR
CASH AT
TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 19, 2012,
at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West
Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated
in Missoula County, Montana: Parcel I:
Tract 1-B of Certificate of Survey No
4914, located in the SW 1/4 of Section
14, Township 15 North, Range 22
West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Parcel II: An easement for Ingress
and Egress as disclosed by an easement
agreement recorded in Book 521 of
Micro Records at Page 373 Isaac S.
Welch and Tammie L. Welch, as
Grantor(s), conveyed said real property
to Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an
obligation owed to Washington Mutual
Bank FSB, as Beneficiary, by Deed of
Trust dated on September 14, 2004 and
recorded on September 20, 2004 in
Book 740, Page 174, under Document
No 200426938. The beneficial interest
is currently held by JPMorgan Chase
Bank, National Association successor
in interest to Washington Mutual Bank
FSB. First American Title Company of
Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee
pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee
recorded in the office of the Clerk and
Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust
by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,036.82,
beginning September 1, 2010, and each
month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on
the principal and interest due on said
obligation and other charges against the
property or loan. The total amount due
on this obligation as of January 7, 2012
is $160,397.93 principal, interest at the
rate of 5.875%, escrow advances of
$324.10 and other fees and expenses
advanced of $6,698.51, plus accruing
interest at the rate of $25.82 per diem,
late charges, and other costs and fees
that may be advanced. The Beneficiary
anticipates and may disburse such
amounts as may be required to preserve
and protect the property and for real
property taxes that may become due or
delinquent, unless such amounts of
taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such
amounts are paid by the Beneficiary,
the amounts or taxes will be added to
the obligations secured by the Deed of
Trust. Other expenses to be charged
against the proceeds of this sale include
the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees,
costs and expenses of the sale and late
charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected,
and has directed the Trustee to sell the
above described property to satisfy the
obligation. The sale is a public sale and
any person, including the beneficiary,
excepting only the Trustee, may bid at
the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in
cash or cash equivalents (valid money
orders, certified checks or cashier’s
checks). The conveyance will be made
by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the
sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is
being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or
other environmental or health hazards.
The sale purchaser shall be entitled to
possession of the property on the 10th
day following the sale. The grantor,
successor in interest to the grantor or
any other person having an interest in
the property, at any time prior to the
trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the
beneficiary the entire amount then due
under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs
and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion
of the principal as would not then be
due had no default occurred and
thereby cure the default. The scheduled
Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by
public proclamation up to 15 days for
any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days
by public proclamation at least every
30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO
COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 15, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley First
American Title Company of Montana,
Inc. Successor Trustee First American
Specialty Services P.O. Box 339
Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho
))ss. County of Bingham ) On this

PUBLIC NOTICES
15th day of February, 2012, before
me, a notary public in and for said
County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be
the Asst Secretary of First American
Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the
person whose name is subscribed to
the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed
the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary
Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase V
Welch 41916.603
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO
BE
SOLD
FOR
CASH AT
TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 25, 2012,
at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West
Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated
in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: TRACT 16 OF CERTIFICATE
OF SURVEY NO. 3058, LOCATED
IN THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP
13 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST,
P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY,
MONTANA. PARCELII: TOGETHER
WITH A PRIVATE ROAD AND
UTILITY EASEMENT AS SHOWN
ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO.
3058 Daniel R. McClellan and Paul
Lowrey, as Grantor(s), conveyed said
real property to Title Services, Inc, as
Trustee, to secure an obligation owed
to Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed
of Trust dated on March 5, 2008 and
recorded on March 12, 2008 on Book
814 and Page 0946 as Document No.
200805381. The beneficial interest is
currently held by GMAC Mortgage,
LLC. First American Title Company of
Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee
pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee
recorded in the office of the Clerk and
Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust

by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1954.69,
beginning September 1, 2011, and each
month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on
the principal and interest due on said
obligation and other charges against the
property or loan. The total amount due
on this obligation as of March 14, 2012
is $417,000.00 principal, interest at the
rate of 5.62500% now totaling
$14,518.16, late charges in the amount
of $1,172.76, escrow advances of
$317.60, and other fees and expenses
advanced of $2,463.75, plus accruing
interest at the rate of $64.26 per diem,
late charges, and other costs and fees
that may be advanced. The Beneficiary
anticipates and may disburse such
amounts as may be required to preserve
and protect the property and for real
property taxes that may become due or
delinquent, unless such amounts of
taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such
amounts are paid by the Beneficiary,
the amounts or taxes will be added to
the obligations secured by the Deed of
Trust. Other expenses to be charged
against the proceeds of this sale include
the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees,
costs and expenses of the sale and late
charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected,
and has directed the Trustee to sell the
above described property to satisfy the
obligation. The sale is a public sale and
any person, including the beneficiary,
excepting only the Trustee, may bid at
the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in
cash or cash equivalents (valid money
orders, certified checks or cashier’s
checks). The conveyance will be made
by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the
sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is
being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or
other environmental or health hazards.
The sale purchaser shall be entitled to
possession of the property on the 10th

day following the sale. The grantor,
successor in interest to the grantor or
any other person having an interest in
the property, at any time prior to the
trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the
beneficiary the entire amount then due
under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs
and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion
of the principal as would not then be
due had no default occurred and
thereby cure the default. The scheduled
Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by
public proclamation up to 15 days for
any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days
by public proclamation at least every
30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO
COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 15, 2012 /s/ Becky Stucki First
American Title Company of Montana,
Inc. Successor Trustee First American
Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss.
County of Bingham ) On this 15th day
of February, 2012, before me, a notary
public in and for said County and State,
personally appeared Becky Stucki,
know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company
of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee,
known to me to be the person whose
name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that
he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 GMAC V
McClellan 41965.646
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
Trustee Sale Number 12-00906-3 Loan
Number: 0204061774 APN: 5835801
TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sate
on September 6, 2012 at the hour of
11:00 AM, recognized focal time, on
the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula

Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C10 May 3 – May 10, 2012

the following described real property in
Missoula County, Montana, to-wit
LOT 14, IN BLOCK 2 OF NEW
MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY,
MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE
OFFICIAL
RECORDED
PLAT
THEREOF. APN# 5835801 More commonly known as:145 NEW MEADOWS DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT
HAROLD E. NELSON & KATHERYN A. NELSON, AS JOINT TENANTS, as the original grantor(s),
conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE
OF
MISSOULA
COUNTY, INC., as the original trustee,
to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS,
INC.
AS
NOMINEE FOR MANN MORTGAGE LLC ITS SUCCESSORS AND
OR ASSIGNS, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of
January 19, 2007, and recorded on January 22, 2007 under Document No.
200701738, Book 790 Page 1276 in the
Official Records of the Office of the
Record of Missoula County, Montana
(“Deed of Trust”), The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA (the
“Beneficiary”)
FIDELITY
NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee
(the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated April 9, 2012 and
recorded in the records of Missoula
County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed
of Trust: Failure to pay when due the
following amounts which are now in
arrears as of March 26,2012: Balance
due on monthly payments from November 1,2011 and which payments
total: $1,638.89: Late charges:
$327.80: Late Charge Forecasted:
$0.00 Bad Check: $0.00 Net Other
Fees: $0.00 Advances: $0.00 There is
presently due on the obligation the
principal sum of $239,639.50 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of
4.75000% per annum from October 1,
2011, plus late charges. Interest and

late charges continue to accrue. Other
expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s
fees and costs and expenses of sale.
The beneficiary has elected to sell the
property to satisfy the obligation and
has directed the trustee to commence
such sale proceedings. The beneficiary
declares that the grantor is in default as
described above and has directed the
Trustee to commence proceedings to
sell the property described above at
public sale in accordance with the
terms and provisions of this notice. The
sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only
the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid
price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s
Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the
10th day following the sale. The
grantor, successor in interest to the
grantor or any other person having an
interest in the aforesaid property, at any
time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay
to the beneficiary or the successor in
interest to the beneficiary the entire
amount then due under the deed of trust
and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than
such portion of the principal as would
not then be due had no default occurred
and thereby cure the default theretofore
existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN
BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION
PLEASE
CALL
714-730-2727 Dated: April 12, 2012
FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By:
Mariah Booker, Authorized Signature
A-4235462 05/03/2012, 05/10/2012,
05/17/2012
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
Trustee Sale Number: 12-00697-3
Loan Number: 0309118131 APN:
3867504 TO BE SOLD for cash at
Trustee’s Sale on August 28, 2012 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local

time, on the front steps to the County
Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real
property in Missoula County, Montana,
to-wit: LOT 3 IN JUSTUS LANE, A
PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL
RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. APN#
3867504 More commonly known as:
109 JUSTUS LANE, MISSOULA, MT
GERALD D COOPER JR, A SINGLE
PERSON, as the original grantor(s),
conveyed said real property to ALLIANCE TITLE & ESCROW CORP,
as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Wells Fargo Bank,
NA, as the original beneficiary, by a
Trust Indenture dated as of November
8, 2010, and recorded on November 24,
2010 in Film No. 869 at Page 1004
under Document No. 201023111, in the
Official Records of the Office of the
Record of Missoula County, Montana
(“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA (the
“Beneficiary”).
FIDELITY
NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee
(the &ldquo;Trustee”) by virtue of a
Substitution of Trustee dated March 22,
2012 and recorded in the records of
Missoula County, Montana. There has
been a default in the performance of
said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when
due the following amounts which are
now in arrears as of March 8, 2012:
Balance due on monthly payments
from November 1, 2011 and which
payments total: $1,429.52: Late
charges: $343.07: Late Charge Forecasted: $0.00 Bad Check: $0.00 Net
Other Fees: $20.00 Advances: $0.00
There is presently due on the obligation
the principal sum of $225,479.40 plus
accrued interest thereon at the rate of
4.62500% per annum from October 1,
2011, plus late charges. Interest and
late charges continue to accrue. Other
expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s
fees and costs and expenses of sale.

The beneficiary has elected to sell the
property to satisfy the obligation and
has directed the trustee to commence
such sale proceedings. The beneficiary
declares that the grantor is in default as
described above and has directed the
Trustee to commence proceedings to
sell the property described above at
public sale in accordance with the
terms and provisions of this notice. The
sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only
the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid
price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s
Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the
10th day following the sale. The
grantor, successor in interest to the
grantor or any other person having an
interest in the aforesaid property, at any
time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay
to the beneficiary or the successor in
interest to the beneficiary the entire
amount then due under the deed of trust
and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than
such portion of the principal as would
not then be due had no default occurred
and thereby cure the default theretofore
existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN
BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION
PLEASE
CALL
714.730.2727 DATED: April 3, 2012
FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By:
Marian Booker, Authorized Signature
A-4231090 04/26/2012, 05/03/2012,
05/10/2012
Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED
TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD
FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 07/30/2012 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash,
the interest in the following described
real property which the Grantor has or
had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed,
together with any interest which the
Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust
Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby
secured and the costs and expenses of
sale, including reasonable charge by
the trustee at the following place: on
the front steps of the Missoula County
Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which GEORGE R BAILEY
as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC., as
Trustee, to secure an obligation owed
to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated
06/16/2008 and recorded 06/17/2008,
in document No. 200813512 in
Book/Reel/Volume Number 820 at
Page Number 1090 in the office of the
Clerk and Recorder Missoula County,
Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 5 OF GRANT CREEK
TRACTS, AS AMENDED ON
AMENDED PLAT OF TRACTS FIVE
AND SIX, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY,
MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE
OFFICIAL
RECORDED
PLAT
RECORDED IN BOOK 12 OF PLATS
AT PAGE 32, INCLUDING PORTION
B AND EXCLUDING PORTION A.
Property Address: 10840 GRANT
CREEK ROAD, Missoula, MT 59808.
The beneficial interest under said Trust
Deed and the obligations secured
thereby are presently held by BANK
OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR
BY MERGER TO BAC HOME
LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA
COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS
SERVICING LP. There is a default by
the Grantor or other person(s) owing an
obligation, the performance of which is
secured by said Trust Deed, or by their
successor in interest, with respect to
provisions therein which authorize sale
in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure
is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the
monthly installment which became due
on 11/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as
set forth in said Note and Deed of
Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH
ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT
OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS
THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of
said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation
secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being
the following: The unpaid principal
balance of $304,000.00 together with
interest thereon at the current rate of

PUBLIC NOTICES
5.25% per annum from 11/01/2011
until paid, plus all accrued late charges,
escrow advances, attorney fees and
costs, and any other sums incurred or
advanced by the beneficiary pursuant
to the terms and conditions of said
Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts
as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property
taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are
paid by the Grantors. If such amounts
are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts
or taxes will be added to the obligations
secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s
fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if
any. Beneficiary has elected, and has
directed the Trustee to sell the above
described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 03/16/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor
Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S.
NO.
12-0023601
FEI
NO.
1006.155463
Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED
TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD
FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 07/30/2012 at the
hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had
power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the
Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust
Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby
secured and the costs and expenses of
sale, including reasonable charge by the
trustee at the following place: on the
front steps of the Missoula County
Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which KENNETH K.
CRAWFORD as Grantor(s), conveyed
said real property to STEWART TITLE
OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC. as
Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to
COMMUNITY BANK-MISSOULA,
INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture
Dated 06/08/2007 and recorded
06/13/2007,
in
document
No.
200714811 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 799 at Page Number 344 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula
County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 1 OF CRAWFORD
ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY,
MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE
OFFICIAL
RECORDED
PLAT
THEREOF. Property Address: 23850
MULLAN ROAD, Huson, MT 59846.
The beneficial interest under said Trust
Deed and the obligations secured
thereby are presently held by BANK
OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR
BY MERGER TO BAC HOME
LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA
COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS
SERVICING, LP. There is a default by
the Grantor or other person(s) owing an
obligation, the performance of which is
secured by said Trust Deed, or by their
successor in interest, with respect to
provisions therein which authorize sale
in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure
is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the
monthly installment which became due
on 12/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as
set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust,
advances, assessments and attorney
fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY
DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF
RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS
THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of
said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation
secured by said Trust Deed immediately
due and payable said sums being the
following: The unpaid principal balance
of $219,162.85 together with interest
thereon at the current rate of 6.375%
per annum from 12/01/2011 until paid,
plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any
other sums incurred or advanced by the
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and
conditions of said Trust Indenture. The
Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required
to preserve and protect the property and
for real property taxes that may become
due or delinquent, unless such amounts
of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If
such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added
to the obligations secured by the Deed
of Trust. Other expenses to be charges

against the proceeds to this sale include
the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees,
costs and expenses of the sale and late
charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected,
and has directed the Trustee to sell the
above described property to satisfy the
obligation Dated: 03/16/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor
Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S.
NO. 12-0023523 FEI NO. 1006.155462
Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED
TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD
FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/10/2012 at the
hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had
power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the
Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust
Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby
secured and the costs and expenses of
sale, including reasonable charge by the
trustee at the following place: on the
front steps of the Missoula County
Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY DOERR
AND HEATHER DOERR, HUSBAND
AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed
said real property to CHARLES PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation
owed
to
MORTGAGE
ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by
Trust Indenture Dated 11/16/2006 and
recorded 11/22/2006, in document No.
200630320 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 787 at Page Number 1095 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula
County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2 OF DOERR
SUBDIVISION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY,
MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE
OFFICIAL
RECORDED
PLAT
THEREOF. Property Address: 11878
WINDEMERE DR, Missoula, MT
59804. The beneficial interest under
said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. There is
a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said
Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein
which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for
which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s
failure to pay the monthly installment
which became due on 07/01/2011, and
all subsequent installments together
with late charges as set forth in said
Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN
THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING
OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME
DUE. By reason of said default, the
beneficiary has declared all sums owing
on the obligation secured by said Trust
Deed immediately due and payable said
sums being the following: The unpaid
principal balance of $842,140.49 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from
07/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued
late charges, escrow advances, attorney
fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms and conditions of
said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary
anticipates and may disburse such
amounts as may be required to preserve
and protect the property and for real
property taxes that may become due or
delinquent, unless such amounts of
taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such
amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the
amounts or taxes will be added to the
obligations secured by the Deed of
Trust. Other expenses to be charges
against the proceeds to this sale include
the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees,
costs and expenses of the sale and late
charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected,
and has directed the Trustee to sell the
above described property to satisfy the
obligation Dated: 03/29/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor
Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S.
NO. 11-0136245 FEI NO. 1006.147173
Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED
TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD
FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/08/2012 at the
hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, the inter-

est in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had
power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the
Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust
Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby
secured and the costs and expenses of
sale, including reasonable charge by the
trustee at the following place: on the
front steps of the Missoula County
Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which VERNON LANE, AN
UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s),
conveyed said real property to
CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to
secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary
by Trust Indenture Dated 06/30/2005
and recorded 07/01/2005, in document
No. 200516420 in Book/Reel/Volume
Number 755 at Page Number 468 in the
office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more
particularly described as follows:
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 29
AND 30 IN BLOCK 65 OF CAR LINE
ADDITION, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY,
MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE
OFFICIAL
RECORDED
PLAT
THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN
BOOK 2 OF PLATS AT PAGE 61.
Property Address: 2320 MCDONALD
AVE, Missoula, MT 59801-7332. The
beneficial interest under said Trust
Deed and the obligations secured
thereby are presently held by BANK
OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR
BY MERGER TO BAC HOME
LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA
COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS
SERVICING, LP. There is a default by
the Grantor or other person(s) owing an
obligation, the performance of which is
secured by said Trust Deed, or by their
successor in interest, with respect to
provisions therein which authorize sale
in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure
is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the
monthly installment which became due
on 01/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as
set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust,
advances, assessments and attorney
fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY
DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF
RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS
THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of
said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation
secured by said Trust Deed immediately
due and payable said sums being the
following: The unpaid principal balance
of $126,530.30 together with interest
thereon at the current rate of 6.375%
per annum from 01/01/2012 until paid,
plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any
other sums incurred or advanced by the
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and
conditions of said Trust Indenture. The
Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required
to preserve and protect the property and
for real property taxes that may become
due or delinquent, unless such amounts
of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If
such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added
to the obligations secured by the Deed
of Trust. Other expenses to be charges
against the proceeds to this sale include
the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees,
costs and expenses of the sale and late
charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected,
and has directed the Trustee to sell the
above described property to satisfy the
obligation Dated: 03/29/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor
Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S.
NO. 12-0026843 FEI NO. 1006.155841
Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED
TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR
CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is
hereby given that the undersigned trustee
will, on 08/10/2012 at the hour of 11:00
AM, sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the
Grantor has or had power to convey at
the time of execution by him of the said
Trust Deed, together with any interest
which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said
Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations
thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable
charge by the trustee at the following
place: on the front steps of the Missoula
County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway,
Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Trust In-

denture in which JOSH A VESTRE as
Grantor(s), conveyed said real property
to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an
obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,
INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture
Dated 06/24/2008 and recorded
06/25/2008, in document No. 200814972
in Book/Reel/Volume Number 821 at
Page Number 1151 in the office of the
Clerk and Recorder Missoula County,
Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 14 HILLVIEW HEIGHTS
NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN
MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA,
ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL
RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2316 W SUMMIT DR,
Missoula, MT 59803-2622. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and
the obligations secured thereby are
presently held by BANK OF AMERICA,
N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO
BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP
FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS
SERVICING LP. There is a default by
the Grantor or other person(s) owing an
obligation, the performance of which is
secured by said Trust Deed, or by their
successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in
the event of default of such provision; the
default for which foreclosure is made is
Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on
03/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set
forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if
any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY
BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all
sums owing on the obligation secured by
said Trust Deed immediately due and
payable said sums being the following:
The unpaid principal balance of
$200,296.92 together with interest
thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per
annum from 03/01/2010 until paid, plus
all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any
other sums incurred or advanced by the
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and
conditions of said Trust Indenture. The
Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse
such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for
real property taxes that may become due
or delinquent, unless such amounts of
taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such
amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the
amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.
Other expenses to be charges against the
proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s
fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.
Beneficiary has elected, and has directed
the Trustee to sell the above described
property to satisfy the obligation Dated:
03/29/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380
Performance
Dr.
TX2-984-0407,
Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120027652 FEI NO. 1006.155842
Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED
TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR
CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is
hereby given that the undersigned trustee
will, on 08/06/2012 at the hour of 11:00
AM, sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the
Grantor has or had power to convey at
the time of execution by him of the said
Trust Deed, together with any interest
which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said
Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations
thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable
charge by the trustee at the following
place: on the front steps of the Missoula
County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway,
Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DAN DEWITT, UNMARRIED as Grantor(s), conveyed said
real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation
owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as
Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated
05/14/2007 and recorded 05/30/2007, in
document
No.
200713320
in
Book/Reel/Volume Number 798 at Page
Number 406 in the office of the Clerk
and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described
as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION:
ALL THAT CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM SITAUTE IN THE COUNTY
OF MISSOULA AND STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED
AS
FOLLOWS:
CONDOMINIUM UNIT #13 OF THE

CENTURY CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION
OF CONDOMINIUM THEREOF,
RECORDED ON AUGUST 12, 2001 IN
BOOK 666 MICRO RECORDS, PAGE
1341, AS DOCUMENT NO. 200120394
OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA.
SAID
CONDOMINIUM
BEING LOCATED ON THE REAL
PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 738, A
PARCEL OF GROUND LOCATED IN
THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER
OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 13
NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M.,
MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA.
TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED
INTEREST IN THE GENERAL COMMON ELEMENTS AND LIMITED
COMMON ELEMENTS APPURTENANT TO SAID UNIT AND AS
STATED IN THE DECLARATION OF
CONDOMINIUM AS RECORDED IN
BOOK 666 MICRO RECORDS, PAGE
1341. TAX ID: 3659607 Property Address: 3811 STEPHENS AVE APT 13,
Missoula, MT 59801-8548. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and
the obligations secured thereby are
presently held by BANK OF AMERICA,
N.A. There is a default by the Grantor
or other person(s) owing an obligation,
the performance of which is secured by
said Trust Deed, or by their successor in
interest, with respect to provisions
therein which authorize sale in the event
of default of such provision; the default
for which foreclosure is made is
Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on
01/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set
forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if
any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY
BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all
sums owing on the obligation secured by
said Trust Deed immediately due and
payable said sums being the following:
The unpaid principal balance of
$115,619.97 together with interest
thereon at the current rate of 6.125% per
annum from 01/01/2012 until paid, plus
all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any
other sums incurred or advanced by the
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and
conditions of said Trust Indenture. The
Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse
such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for
real property taxes that may become due
or delinquent, unless such amounts of
taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such
amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the
amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.
Other expenses to be charges against the
proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s
fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.
Beneficiary has elected, and has directed
the Trustee to sell the above described
property to satisfy the obligation Dated:
03/28/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380
Performance
Dr.
TX2-984-0407,
Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120025945 FEI NO. 1006.155846
Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED
TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR
CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is
hereby given that the undersigned trustee
will, on 08/07/2012 at the hour of 11:00
AM, sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the
Grantor has or had power to convey at
the time of execution by him of the said
Trust Deed, together with any interest
which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said
Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations
thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable
charge by the trustee at the following
place: on the front steps of the Missoula
County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway,
Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JAMES R JONES as
Grantor(s), conveyed said real property
to CHARLES (MISSOULA) J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation
owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as
Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated
08/31/2006 and recorded 09/01/2006, in
document
No.
200622490
in
Book/Reel/Volume Number 782 at Page
Number 530 in the office of the Clerk
and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described
as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION:
LOT 3 IN BLOCK 2 OF VIRGINIA
VILLAGE, A PLATTED SUBDIVI-

SION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA,
MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA,
ACCORDING TO THE OFFIICAL
RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. MORE
CORRECTLY DESCRIBED AS: LOT 3
IN BLOCK 2 OF VIRGINIA VILLAGE,
A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE
CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA
COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING
TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT
THEREOF. Property Address: 6 VIRGINIA DRIVE, Missoula, MT 598031234. The beneficial interest under said
Trust Deed and the obligations secured
thereby are presently held by
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL
TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE
FOR THE HSI ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION TRUST 2006HE2. There is a default by the Grantor
or other person(s) owing an obligation,
the performance of which is secured by
said Trust Deed, or by their successor in
interest, with respect to provisions
therein which authorize sale in the event
of default of such provision; the default
for which foreclosure is made is
Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on
12/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set
forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if
any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY
BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all
sums owing on the obligation secured by
said Trust Deed immediately due and
payable said sums being the following:
The unpaid principal balance of
$184,387.24 together with interest
thereon at the current rate of 9.40% per
annum from 12/01/2010 until paid, plus
all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any
other sums incurred or advanced by the
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and
conditions of said Trust Indenture. The
Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse
such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for
real property taxes that may become due
or delinquent, unless such amounts of
taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such
amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the
amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.
Other expenses to be charges against the
proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s
fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.
Beneficiary has elected, and has directed
the Trustee to sell the above described
property to satisfy the obligation Dated:
03/28/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380
Performance
Dr.
TX2-984-0407,
Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110116624 FEI NO. 1006.147971
Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED
TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR
CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is
hereby given that the undersigned trustee
will, on 08/15/2012, at the hour of 11:00
AM sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the
Grantor has or had power to convey at
the time of execution by him of the said
Trust Deed, together with any interest
which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said
Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations
thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable
charge by the trustee at the following
place: on the front steps of the Missoula
County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway,
Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MARTIN E NOYD as
Grantors, conveyed said real property to
CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to
secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary
by Trust Indenture Dated 10/30/2008 and
recorded 10/31/2008, in document No.
200824705 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 828 at Page Number 1091 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula
County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION:
TRACT
6
OF
CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 366,
A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN
AND BEING A PORTION OF THE
NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF
SECTION 32 AND THE NORTHWEST
ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 33,
TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20
WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN,
MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY,
MONTANTA. TOGETHER WITH A
60’ ROAD AND UTILITY EASEMENT
AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF
SURVEY NO. 366. FURTHER TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT AS

DESCRIBED IN BOOK 221 OF
DEEDS AT PAGE 622. Property Address: 2705 LYON CREEK RD, Missoula, MT 59804-9771. The beneficial
interest under said Trust Deed and the
obligations secured thereby are presently
held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC
HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA
COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS
SERVICING LP. There is a default by
the Grantor or other person(s) owing an
obligation, the performance of which is
secured by said Trust Deed, or by their
successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in
the event of default of such provision; the
default for which foreclosure is made is
Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on
12/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set
forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if
any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY
BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all
sums owing on the obligation secured by
said Trust Deed immediately due and
payable said sums being the following:
The unpaid principal balance of
$295,812.93 together with interest
thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per
annum from 12/01/2011 until paid, plus
all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any
other sums incurred or advanced by the
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and
conditions of said Trust Indenture. The
Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse
such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for
real property taxes that may become due
or delinquent, unless such amounts of
taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such
amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the
amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.
Other expenses to be charges against the
proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s
fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.
Beneficiary has elected, and has directed
the Trustee to sell the above described
property to satisfy the obligation Dated:
04/03/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380
Performance
Dr.
TX2-984-0407,
Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120029166 FEI NO. 1006.156729
Public Notice – Open Cut Mining Permit West Company, Inc. plans to open
an Open Cut Gravel Pit located at 4635
Petty Creek Road, Alberton, MT
59820. The gravel pit operation will
occupy 22.42 acres of 60.24 total acres
owned by Jack Wilkinson. They plan
on removing approximately 164,620
cubic yards of material that will be
used for the Petty Creek Road construction project. They have applied for
a Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) Open Cut Mining
permit. As a part of this permit they are
required to send a public notice to all
property owners within one-half mile
of the proposed boundary of the open
cut permit. Currently, the site has one
residence on agricultural land. The site
contains 6” of topsoil that will be
stockpiled and replaced once mining
operations have concluded on the site.
Gravels and sand are slated to be the
material that will be mined from the
site. A temporary asphalt plan and
crusher with a screen will be located
site. The site will be accessed off Petty
Creek Road by a new access road to the
south of the existing driveway for the
property. The open cut permitting activities will take place during the time
frame of June to October 2012 and
June to October 2013. This time frame
corresponds with the construction time
frame for the Petty Creek Road project.
If you have any questions, please contact Nate McKinley of West Company
Inc. at the address below. Operator
Contact Information West Company,
Inc. Nate McKinley, Project Manager
P.O. Box 519 Airway Heights, WA
99001 Phone Number: (509)-468-8535

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Detailed Housing Report Available
By Jennifer Taylor, 2012 MOR President
The Missoula organization of REALTORS® produces a housing report each
year. We do this with the understanding that the housing market is hyper-local.
A number of factors and trends can make it better or even worse than national
trends. The press conference for the 2012 Missoula Housing Report was held
on the 12th of April this year. Thanks to our partnership with the Missoula Independent, we were able to provide a “light” version of the report for the Indy’s
special Homesteader publication.
However, if you would like more details, go to MissoulaRealEstate.com and
check under Market Trends. Not only can you find market statistics updated
each month, but you can also review comprehensive Housing Reports going
back to 2006.
The following highlights several key points from the housing report and
the first few months of 2012.
Median Price (Page 18):
A median is the value at which half of the sales fall below and half of the
sales fall above. The reason we use a median instead of an average is that it is
less likely to be affected by outliers. For example a million dollar sale would
dramatically affect an average but have little effect on a median.
• 2012-$205,000
• 2011-$200,500
• 2010-$208,775
• 2007-$219,500 (highest)
The numbers show an increase in median price of $4,500, which means
the total drop of value in the market since the height in 2007 is just below 7%;
an unremarkable number considering the dramatic drops seen in other parts
of the country.

With the increase in value and a decrease in household income, home affordability that seemed to have been regained in 2010 once again fell flat. Even
with record low interest rates, a four-person household is the only segment of
the population that can afford a median priced home (Page 31).
So far this year, some of the gains in median price that had been made in
2011 were lost, with the average year-to-date for Missoula County being
$193,000. However, the market has picked up in a new way. So far the county
is up over 15% in number of sales versus this time last year.
At the end of the day, we at the Missoula Organization of REALTORS® believe that an informed buyer or seller is an important aspect in any transaction.

That is why we take the time to
ensure our accurate numbers are updated and posted each month on our website. In addition, the 2012 Missoula Housing Report is the product of a number
of industry experts as they strive “to provide a comprehensive, credible, and
neutral picture of Missoula housing that can be used as a tool by community
members and policy makers as they seek to serve Missoula’s needs.”
Feel free to browse MissoulaRealEstate.com and check out
the trends in your neighborhood!

All real estate advertising in this
newspaper is subject to the Federal
and State Fair Housing Acts, which
makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination
based on race, color, religion, sex,
handicap, familial status or national
origin, marital status, age, and/or
creed or intention to make any such
preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with
parents or legal custodians, and
pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.
This newspaper will not knowingly
accept any advertising for real estate
that is in violation of the law. Our
readers are hereby informed that all
dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report
discrimination in housing call HUD
at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or
Montana Fair Housing toll-free at
1-800-929-2611

CONDOS/
TOWNHOMES
2 Bdr, 1.5 Downtown Missoula
condo. Zoned for Residential or
Commercial use. $299,000. Prudential Montana. For more info
call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696,
or visit
www.mindypalmer.com
For a limited time a purchase of
a condo at the Uptown Flats
will include a large flat screen
TV and assistance with up to

$5000 Buyers closing costs!The
Uptown Flats have two
one bed one bath units at
$149,900.
Call
Anne
546-5816
for
showing.
www.movemontana.com
Treehouse Feel in this fairly
new condo with single garage.
Great location close to school,
bike trail, Good Food Store and
town.
935B
Garfield.
$117,500. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

321 N. Higgins Commercial
building on coveted downtown
location with lots of foot traffic.
Building only for sale. Call Anne
546-5816
for
showing.
www.movemontana.com
East Missoula Building
Lot with great trees and a sweet
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hood. $65,000. 240-5227
porticorealestate.com

OUT OF TOWN
101 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3
bed, 2 bath features one level living with beautifully landscaped
fenced yard. Lot is zoned commercial so you could run a small
business out of the separate office with attached 3 car garage.
MLS# 20116174. $320,000
Robin Rice @ 240-6503.
riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana
Preferred Properties.
102 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3
bed, 2 bath features one level living with beautifully landscaped
yard. Lot zoned commercial.
48â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; shop with 3-10â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x9â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
doors, bathroom with service
sink, benches, cabinets and
shelves, wired for 220 50 and
30
amp.
$298,500.
MLS#20114068.. Robin Rice @
240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net.
Montana Preferred Properties.
3 Bdr, 2 Bath single level
Stevensville area home on 6.3
cross-fenced acres with a large
shop. $339,000. Prudential
Montana. For more info call
Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or